Example sentences of "would come [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was possible that you would come over to Moila , and of course there was nothing suspicious — about that . |
| 3 | Apart from anything else , his working day did not begin till seven or eight , so that he was often there during the day , and always ready to listen ; but there were times when his customers left early , at two or three in the morning , and then Maurice , somewhat exhilarated with whisky , would come over to Grace , magically retaining his balance on the gangplank , and sit on the gunwale , waiting . |
| 4 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 5 | They would come over from Belfast to stay with us in the summers sometimes ; my father used to get on well with Harmsworth , and because I looked after Esmerelda they could have a nice relaxing holiday here . |
| 6 | Well I wa I was n't sure whether to whether it would come through in time for the case That 's why I did n't |
| 7 | The RAF Benevolent Fund made an initial contribution towards my clothes , and Mr Grice , their representative , would come round after work and help my mother fill in the forms . |
| 8 | Sometimes Elise would come up to London to spend a few days at Merrill 's flat and together they visited galleries , and saw a show . |
| 9 | He says that any teacher who makes comments like that in front of a class , should n't be in school that 's why he said to us that if a teacher ever speaks to us like that he would come up to school and sort him out . |
| 10 | A consortium led by Spanish state airline Iberia had reportedly deposited US$130,000,000 in a New York bank on Sept. 28 as part of a July 16 agreement whereby it would come up with $260,000,000 in cash and $2,100 million in debt-for-equity swaps to buy 85 per cent of the state airline Aerolíneas Argentinas [ see p. 37608 ] . |
| 11 | Suddenly he would come up with things that were very exciting . ’ |
| 12 | So for example , if you typed actor in the search field , chose award from the keyword list and put the date 1971 in the Date and Archive box the program would come up with Woody Allen . |
| 13 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 14 | But I think of course we can all debate er the various individual proposals and I think if we were in control of the council not only of course would we have different policies but the sort of detailed matters which would come up in debate would be discussed in committee , things would be in the normal way . |
| 15 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 16 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |
| 17 | Janet , tiptoeing out into the hall when Penman had opened the door , said that Aunt Emily was resting and would come down at tea-time . |
| 18 | Later in the week a répétiteur would come down from Vienna to take over the piano and help with individual coaching . |
| 19 | However , if death was unavoidable I would come back as Arthur Miller . |
| 20 | Of course , he would come back to Baghdad . |
| 21 | There 'd be a lot of similarity to it , and I think if we 're honest a lot of it would come back to things . |
| 22 | ‘ Had I known this man would come back to Lebanon , I would have called and said : ‘ Do n't come back to this country . ’ |
| 23 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 24 | They would come back on leave and wear their scarlet tunics in the dale . |
| 25 | I said I was confident that the Government would come back from Maastricht with something that was acceptable to the Conservative party . |
| 26 | I did zip the tent flap shut , but wasted no other time on housekeeping ; I would come back in daylight to tidy up and replace the stores I had used . |
| 27 | Between 1692 and 1747 the British had defeated the French at sea a number of times , but these battles could not eliminate the possibility that the French fleet would come out of port at a time of its own choosing and assist attacks on British colonies or an invasion of the British Isles . |
| 28 | Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo . |
| 29 | If it were , I have a hunch that Fox would come out on top . |
| 30 | He would come out with lines like , ‘ Let your words to God be as the noise of Esau ! ’ |