Example sentences of "would [vb infin] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 2 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 3 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 4 | C. I thought you 'd get on to that . |
| 5 | He would hang on for that . |
| 6 | And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work . |
| 7 | When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories . |
| 8 | Er I would keep on with those right till they 're finished and then come up towards the end of next week . |
| 9 | And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work . |
| 10 | As one door would close , they would move on to another , never surrendering faith in the need for a popular paper that , in Hayling 's words , ‘ at the very least reflects the decent humanity in this country ’ , ’ he wrote in the journalists ' trade paper , UK Press Gazette . |
| 11 | There was no doubt that the Liberals would press on with this timetable , and little doubt that the Labour and Irish MPs would support them ; Unionists could not therefore stop Home Rule becoming law . |
| 12 | He had in those days of innocence seen the Edition as a finite task that would lead on to other things . |
| 13 | I would go on with that . |
| 14 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 15 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 16 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 17 | ‘ Kelly believed she , too , would go on to other things that God planned for her . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Kelly believed she too would go on to other things God had got planned for her . ’ |
| 19 | Spend the immediate post-Smiths period saying how he was the talented one and would go on to great things . |
| 20 | The series would go on until 1978 with Ken in the last , Carry On Emmanuelle , a spoof on the soft-porn hits of the age , as he had been in Carry on Sergeant , the first . |
| 21 | For weeks it would go on like this and then suddenly one day you would notice him just lying in the sun instead of studying his map , or reading a novel instead of his German grammar . |
| 22 | I thought I would go on in that job — hairdressing . |
| 23 | She would get on with some work , she told herself firmly . |
| 24 | Crump — this would provide an opportunity for a salving weep — Crump would live on for this child herself one day would bear children … |
| 25 | When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back . |
| 26 | He would come round on his cycle just lean up against the er lamppost and push a long pole u underneath the , the lights the lamp itself the glass , and of course the lamp would come on off this pole |
| 27 | • A new signal at the start of the race told drivers that the red light would come on in five seconds . |
| 28 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |