Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
2 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
3 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
4 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
5 | Occasionally he would mutter a few words of comfort , or reach out a hand and lay it reassuringly on Sigarup 's blanketed body to let him know that he was still awake . |
6 | So Melanie would unpack a few things and go to bed early , herself . |
7 | Er , in the introductions I did n't stand up and er , introduce myself cos I felt it would steal a few minutes of my er presentation ! |
8 | I suppose you could just imagine that ring had slipped off your finger , that would bring a few tears . |
9 | The Americans and British , intent on not getting stuck in the town , wandered in and out talking of electricity and sanitation , then said they would send a few soldiers for a short time . |
10 | In strictly layman 's terms , the amount of additional engine-weight and fuel that any supersonic aircraft could get off the ground would give a few minutes of sub-orbital time , if that . |
11 | I am doing my best , but I wish a few more would give a few hours of their time . , . |
12 | The second half would follow a few months later , paving the way for a full IMF standby programme . |
13 | Although Creggan preferred in such weather to keep inland he had a natural preference for the coast and on calmer days when the wind abated he would spend a few hours along the shore . |
14 | The boy would spend a few weeks at a time with his father and when Sheila one day came to collect Scott , she mentioned that she felt she might well marry again . |
15 | ‘ The dining-room has a most comfortable armchair , if you would like a few minutes , peace . ’ |
16 | Can anyone recommend somebody who would like a few hours a week domestic cleaning ( and maybe occasional catering work ? ) |
17 | Yet he was well aware that tampering with the traditional approach to Swan Lake would ruffle a few feathers . |
18 | But first he would have a few minutes of self-indulgence . |
19 | Now and again there were diversions , when one or another of the remaining five would hold the stage and would have a few moments of limelight , or glory . |
20 | If tables could talk , I imagine this one would have a few tales to tell for it is here she has enjoyed repasts with such gossipy Sloanes as Carolyn Bartholomew , Kate Menzies and Millie Dunne . |
21 | ‘ I should appreciate it if you would have a few words with her , unless , of course , you approve of such behaviour . |
22 | The client 's cheque would take a few hours to arrive ) . |
23 | She would take a few drops directly into the mouth using the pipette whereas previously she had used a teaspoon direct from the 100ml bottle . |
24 | An hour later Guy refreshed himself with a jug of water drawn from the well and wondered how his host would take a few suggestions . |
25 | Initially , a swift , artistically rough job was contemplated , a ‘ tendentious piece ’ which would take a few months to write and would enrage ‘ the nihilists and Westerners ’ and set them ‘ howling about me that I 'm a retrograde . |
26 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
27 | It was arranged that he would take a few days ' supply of stoma bags with him and he was given a list of equipment he would require . |
28 | Did he know he would die a few years later ? |
29 | I would drive a few yards through the gate marked ‘ private ’ and instantly be set upon by men wielding knobbly aluminium clubs , or I would return from the walk to find my car had been smelted into a set of folding tubular garden furniture . |
30 | Whenever they reached an island that was likely to be visited by European sailors again , they would release a few pigs , to run wild , multiply and form a permanent supply of protein — on islands seemingly not well provisioned for humans . |