Example sentences of "and they would [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Oh it could be stormy right enough but well the steamer might call at Rousay at that time and they would land the goods in Rousay the perishables for Wyre and when the weather abated we would get it from there .
2 Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way .
3 There were occasions when someone did a large number , and they would bring the job-sheet round and show the others and say ‘ She has done so many , you also must . ’
4 A large pond was the boys ' delight and they would travel the considerable distance to the ‘ newty ’ pond , as it was nicknamed , to sit in expectation for the fish to bite .
5 Th they sometimes brought their own two little boys with them and they would make the the bands to cut them bands to do the sheaves , so .
6 One unlocked and you got in touch with the station and they would contact the key-keeper and they would come out and lock the place up .
7 They would not enable the courts to interfere where there clearly has been a breach of procedural fairness ; and they would permit the inferior tribunals to exceed the limited powers which Parliament has conferred upon them .
8 He could walk now with a crutch , but the going would be slow , and they would spend the night in Lorpa .
9 He would then ask two or three of them to pray and they would close the meeting with the singing of a psalm .
10 And erm erm the tailors would come when they wanted to do any pressing of seams , or anything , and they would take the goose iron , and put it in on of the , what we call press cloths , that we pressed the And then they would douse it in the bucket of water , to get it the right heat , to start , so a cloud of steam went up .
11 Other fish with the fry are not a good idea , there is a danger of predation , and they would increase the level of metabolic wastes .
12 And they would abolish the Audit Commission , which not only maintains the probity of local government accounting , but also pioneered the drive for better quality of service and value for money in local government .
13 War accounts tell of Nippon pilots who tried to follow a P-40 into a high speed dive and they would rip the wings right off their Zero .
14 At the Watford Gaumont , which I managed , people would come in dinner dress and they would have the same seat every week .
15 What is so interesting is that despite that disastrous performance , Labour 's policies have hardly altered — and they would have the same effect again .
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