Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 2 | When Hurley got off on one of his tirades , Dany Habib , his number two , would stand in the doorway and roll his eyes , and Connie , his secretary , a typical career civil service type , would cluck around like a mother hen . |
| 3 | Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether . |
| 4 | Women would fall out of a helicopter , whereas men would n't … ’ |
| 5 | If any of us let go and started breathing again , one of them would fall off into a lake of mud . |
| 6 | He is assuming that all those people now paid below what his party would bring in as a minimum wage would keep their jobs . |
| 7 | When the unsuspecting man was safely ensconced in a deep slumber , Jarman would pull two bolts from the floor below , and the bed , which was screwed to the floor , would tip up to a 45° angle , sliding the poor wayfarer into a great vat of boiling fat strategically placed below . |
| 8 | Initially , the new system would break down as a result of faults in the computer programs . |
| 9 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 10 | In July Beverley Nicolls ' Cry Havoc was published , an incoherent and emotional anti-war tract which predicted that a second world war would break out within a year . |
| 11 | If faster scrapping was properly taken into account in the capital stock statistics it would show up in a higher figure for depreciation ( and thus a lower profit share ) rather than a falling output-capital ratio . |
| 12 | The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service . |
| 13 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 14 | I 'd sit on his lap and he 'd stroke me and rabbit on , and this sound would crop up with a kind of sighing and sometimes his voice would have an edge to it , too . |
| 15 | We 're actually at the moment the the the brief , the focus is to actually on what we , look at what we would send out as a report to parents . |
| 16 | Patrick Kelly , whom Dan would look on as an ill-educated lout , had actually spent time on her enjoyment . |
| 17 | He said he would ask Sir David Attenborough to help her , which he did by checking out her agent and saying he would look out for a film part for her . ’ |
| 18 | From time to time he would look back with a certain pride at them . |
| 19 | And then , if everything ran true to form , the undamaged clays would sail down to a landing somewhere out of sight . |
| 20 | ‘ No-one would run off with a hand-cart . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’ |
| 22 | There are many , priests too , who would wipe out in a day all the familiar things about Mother Church that endear her to us all , even the precepts and practices that are the reason she has survived for all these nineteen hundred years . |
| 23 | She had thought that if her mother had learned to consent , to let go , to be filled , then Phoebe 's passivity and disinterest would drop off like a cloak and she too could be naked with joy and love . |
| 24 | Sometimes he would lay out in a row the seven or eight letters from the seven or eight men who he would most like to meet and talk to when he got to heaven . |
| 25 | The enormous park was a source of delight to most visitors — though not all — for sometimes the Empress , an indefatigable walker , would set off with a group of people to tramp through the grounds , occasionally going part of the way in a carriage . |
| 26 | Then it was a half-hour 's drive from our base to Christophe and Hedwige 's house , and from there Mike would set off on an hour 's run with Christophe through the forest , still in darkness , to ensure they reached the chimpanzees ' nest site before the occupants moved off for the day . |
| 27 | They thought then that they would set out as an army and conquer the rest of the land and rule over it ; that was their mission . |
| 28 | He could see the longer teeth at the sides of her mouth and the folds of wet black skin that at any moment would draw back in a threatening snarl . |
| 29 | I would sink down into a velvet void so entire and impenetrable that whether it was I or I was it , became moot . |
| 30 | On employment , the Labour party would sign up for a massive extension of Community competence and majority voting in the name of the social charter . |