Example sentences of "would come [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would come here and give you a good , price for everything you wanted to sell . " |
| 2 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 3 | On days when wing inspection would come around and check our tech supplier for spare parts , we would load this trailer with all the illegal spare parts we were n't supposed to have , cos they , like the couple of it might call it for three starters and we had six , seven or eight . |
| 4 | Nigel had arranged that his son-in-law ( his daughter Caroline 's husband ) , who was living and working in Denmark , and his nephew James from California would come over and help me with the move . |
| 5 | Music was very important to Norman and occasionally he would come over and invite me to concerts and films . |
| 6 | Another lady would come outside and look up a tree and say , sadly , ‘ All them squirrels goin' to waste . ’ |
| 7 | But I say sometimes when I was i like that I wished somebody would come round and knock on the door , perhaps |
| 8 | Terry it was , but he wished the man would come round and answer questions . |
| 9 | same lines , but , he know he , you assume that as soon as you got outside him , that bloody draft would come round and push him back and the other bloke would carry on . |
| 10 | He , it was for the , you know , the , the instructor w would come round and see if you had aimed the thing , it was a tripod sort of thing . |
| 11 | He was saying he would come up and tell us how Stephen was and everything . |
| 12 | She was afraid that one of the men who hung around the London termini waiting for girls arriving from the provinces would come up and offer to carry the case for her . |
| 13 | In cafes they would come up and sit at your table and chat as though they had known you all their lives . |
| 14 | Seeing me in a state of bewildered angst , they would come up and intone directions in a rhythmical and mysterious language . |
| 15 | T. B. Bloody pest was stray animals , stray dogs — people would come up and say they 'd found a stray , and you 'd have to take it off them , take their name and address . |
| 16 | I wish people would come up and say things like that |
| 17 | The audiences particularly loved the Indian clubs routine and after the show would come up and rub their suntan to see if it was real . |
| 18 | ‘ We think Brian might have seen something or found something out that someone was afraid he would come home and tell us , ’ said Mr McDermott . |
| 19 | Someone would come home and wonder what she was doing . |
| 20 | My fantasies were never about specific sexual activities , they were always on the level of some emotional transcendence — someone would come along and embrace me and that would be it ; I could n't really envisage what the nitty gritty practical things were . |
| 21 | Perhaps another chap would come along and stop on the other side of the road . |
| 22 | In th i in the old days when a firm would come along and pack everything , then they said that , and that was quite true , that they would pack everything and then they would be responsible if damage was done . |
| 23 | yes , any colour you can think of , I mean erm , blue I think is one of the worse , but thinking of lampshades we used to sell a lot of er lampshades for putting on table lamps er and erm , we 'd have just about every colour and somebody would come along and say well erm have n't you got one in purple and of course I 'd refrain from saying thank god no I have n't |
| 24 | Please praise God for his faithfulness to us and for using us to help others see the light of Christ and please also pray that others would come along and find help and friendship with us . |
| 25 | Someone would come along and find a unified theory that would do away with indeterminate interpretations , you 'd say , and revert to causality . |
| 26 | I wish someone would come along and take me home . |
| 27 | I should have known that eventually some man would come along and take advantage of the situation . |
| 28 | The best she could hope for was that someone would come along and abuse her in various disgusting and incomprehensible ways . |
| 29 | ‘ I needed my own role especially as the new MP would come along and put his own stamp on the constituency . ’ |
| 30 | Put it this way if I was having a problem with a member of my staff , or was , and we felt we wanted your help then you would come in and talk to them |