Example sentences of "would [vb infin] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 2 | I would stay on in Al Ain , making my own way to London in time for his return . |
| 3 | A long sash window framing a view down , far below , to where she fancied she could almost see the floodlit Verdala Palace and the Buskett Gardens , where the Mnarja would flow on until dawn … |
| 4 | Then they would move on to acquaintances who were ruining their careers doing television . |
| 5 | There had been suggestions that he would move on after problems with his choice of selectors . |
| 6 | Vincent would move on from evangelist to artist , and the great Russian , determined to live a life modelled on Christ , was beginning to regard all art as frivolous . |
| 7 | ‘ I took them from her , ’ she said instead , fearing mention of police interest would lead on to computer codes and MacQuillan 's business methods . |
| 8 | However , to pursue this would lead on to criticisms of inductivism that I have reserved for the next chapter . |
| 9 | A headache would drag on for days . |
| 10 | Mr Whitelaw would pass on to Mrs Thatcher the proposals for phrases and the presentational priorities , suggesting to her that she might wish to hold a meeting on the subject . |
| 11 | She would walk on to Marienborg . |
| 12 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 13 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 14 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 15 | He would go on to look at the banks and their debtors , and find all the symptoms he needed to confirm a diagnosis of monetary anorexia . |
| 16 | He said that while some of the pupils may have only experimented with drugs , there was always the worry that they would go on to try other , harder drugs . |
| 17 | I knew that on this trip my husband would go on to Oman and Cairo before returning home . |
| 18 | Tall and strong , with very broad shoulders , he would go on to claim 202 victims at 25 from his 47 Tests , of which 50 came in a dozen games against England . |
| 19 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 20 | not , not like erm any descendants that would go on from Adam were born imperfect were n't they ? |
| 21 | Crozier sought to delay the making of the statement on the ground that it defamed him and might prejudice the jury in Barnet 's action against him , which would come on for trial some six months later . |
| 22 | He then proposed his new plan : that his mother should go back home , and he would continue on to Paris when the weather improved , together with Wendling , Ramm and the bassoonist Ritter . |
| 23 | There were narrow high windows , far above them ; Fenella thought they would open on to rooms at a higher level than the ground . |
| 24 | Luke would rave on about change . |
| 25 | We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked . |