Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to evaluate my effectiveness as a role model , facilitator and practical teacher in terms of the time involved , but I was reassured by the fact I had spent 10 per cent of my time formally teaching students — although some nurses would rather spend this time at the bedside . |
| 2 | I would not calculate this time , this time I would try to select my route in a random way . |
| 3 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |
| 4 | Fate , it seemed , was determined that Nell and he would not have more time . |
| 5 | I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time . |
| 6 | Such a swing had never happened before and would not happen this time . |
| 7 | In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations . |
| 8 | Wet through again I wandered about inside the house touching pictures , clocks , trying to feel loss for these things , but it would n't come this time — that sense that had been with me since the reading of Francis 's Will had vanished . |
| 9 | I was amused by your comment that you were sure we would n't cross this time , because we nearly did . |
| 10 | I thought big brother would n't lose any time in making you welcome at Rocamar , Sarella . ’ |
| 11 | After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that . |
| 12 | He would never forget that time when a corporal had been machine-gunned in an ambush on a country road near Palermo . |
| 13 | Churchill in office would never have wasted time in the smoking room without an audience . |
| 14 | Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform . |
| 15 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |