Example sentences of "would at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I Call 'd at the House , where you said I shou 'd dine ,
2 He assumed , as he had been led to believe at meetings with General Helmuth von Moltke immediately prior to the war , that Germany would at the outset deploy some eight corps in East Prussia .
3 Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) .
4 A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone .
5 But remedies involving , for example , an extra tax payable by each person in a household would at the moment be madness : many councils would be left struggling with exactly the enforcement difficulties that have made the poll tax so hard to set up and administer .
6 But there was no one more popular than Rambling Sid Rumpoe , the folk singer , who would at the drop of a mangelwurzel sing ‘ The Runcorne Splodcobblers Song ’ , sung by the splodcobblers of Runcorne as they thump their cordwaggle bellow afore cobbling their splods .
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