Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) . |
| 2 | Lord Fraser expressed the government 's confidence in the system , and confirmed that the important task of considering compulsory measures of care would remain firmly with the children 's hearing . |
| 3 | Whereas the revolutionary upheaval of 1917 had seemed to them to foreshadow an entirely novel social order in which power would remain firmly in the hands of the masses themselves , the Bolsheviks proceeded to restore hierarchical and coercive control in every field . |
| 4 | The Thyssen museum opened in Madrid on 9th of last month to fairly general self-congratulation in the Spanish newspapers , qualified by the hope that the paintings would remain there at the end of the nine and a half years loan/rental period ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct 1992 , pp.1 , 6 ) . |
| 5 | Unlike his father , he would remain there for the rest of his life , without resentment , becoming in the end a partner in a somewhat unenterprising firm . |
| 6 | He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up . |
| 7 | ‘ You know Daddy , ’ she would laugh defensively with the girls . |
| 8 | This would compare directly with the breakdown of a traditional bill of quantities . |
| 9 | This is why I would quarrel mildly with the book 's title The Art of Sketching . |
| 10 | I was holding it lightly against the glass of the door at an angle where the steel-jacketed slugs would plough straight into the fat of his abdomen . |
| 11 | She had one advantage over him ; he had only a general idea of which shops would interest Garry and his ‘ Mrs Smith ’ , but Claudia knew Dana would make straight for the most exclusive dress shops , and luckily Claudia had a very good idea which one would be at the top of her list . |
| 12 | This would explain more about the history of local trade and perhaps show how knowledge of bronze-casting reached West Africa . |
| 13 | Punitive taxes — and the insidious rhetoric that is invariably used to justify them , and then to raise them again — would eat away at the working spirit . |
| 14 | In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it . |
| 15 | Often they would quarrel and he would stay away from the house for a while ; but he was never able to stay away for long . |
| 16 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 17 | Benjamin , we may say to his credit , seems to have taken to Curry Rivel like a fish to water , and would stay there until the day he died . |
| 18 | Then Liam and Nellie would take the bus to Belfast , then the train to Dublin , where they would stay overnight at the Gresham Hotel . |
| 19 | The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm . |
| 20 | Like Hannay , Chesterton would adapt quickly to the strangeness of his new environment , evolving into a pillar of strength on whom the audience knew they could depend in times of crisis . |
| 21 | We could be proud of such an achievement because the tide could flow in and out , the natural environment would be enhanced , and the flora and fauna would flourish close to the heart of our great capital city . |
| 22 | They would hang evenly from the shoulder seams . |
| 23 | The idea of such a crude and offensive parody of the stiff , powerful heavy cavalry of the late Roman Army would appeal immensely to the peasants who could vent their feelings of resentment in bawdy mockery on those monuments of authority . |
| 24 | His ‘ we ’ sometimes hinted at the nationalist ‘ we ’ of Britain , in a way which would appeal directly to the sentiments of the audience . |
| 25 | This would appeal greatly to the crowd as they are being given a reasonable , simple reason to why Caesar was killed , because he was out for himself . |
| 26 | If Marcus , usually to be found in his bedroom , was sitting upon an upright chair , his back straight , his hands on his knees , staring into space , in a posture presumably connected with some technique of meditation , Ludens would wait outside in the hall , or converse quietly with Irina in the kitchen . |
| 27 | Omar assured us that the Somalis he had engaged would wait contentedly with the camels until we turned up . |
| 28 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 29 | They would wait silently by the roadside for a victim and could only he identified if forced to speak , for then they would emit a loud bray . |
| 30 | But then it was that thoughts began to penetrate her desire-clouded mind — the realisation that , should these ribbon ties become undone , then her nightdress would fall straight to the floor — and she would be left — stark naked . |