Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then if you did that it would tighten on to your walls |
| 2 | It had appeared , it would move on , but for this moment it was there for her — almost as if it had waited for her to be alone . |
| 3 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 4 | It would whirl on regardless to October the eleventh and beyond . |
| 5 | And it would go on and on and on — |
| 6 | For weeks it would go on like this and then suddenly one day you would notice him just lying in the sun instead of studying his map , or reading a novel instead of his German grammar . |
| 7 | The British Company had shown that it could play an effective role in the rougher sort of Indian politics , but there was no reason to think it would go on doing so . |
| 8 | ’ And so it would go on . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd lie under the covers and make the noise he makes when he 's breathing , and then I 'd stop , but sometimes it would go on after I 'd stopped ! ’ |
| 10 | An air of antiquity hung over that pathway , which , followed to its logical end , ran down to the river , as if the ancient Britons had used it first and it would go on being used even after the Bomb fell . |
| 11 | Er , I mean , deregulation a bill er is not perhaps gon na affect the numbers of statutory instruments going through the house and I think that er the city would continue without the statutory instrument , er I think the country would continue , it would go on if we 'd had n't passed these regulations and in essence are these four new statutory instruments really going to help run the country more effectively er are we imposing duties on auditors er and regulators er with the securities er er tied up with the investment board , another quango , er do we need all this ? |
| 12 | What they hoped for was a future that Swindon would begin , then get league racing and that it would go on forever . |
| 13 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 14 | It would drag on . |
| 15 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 16 | I knew that if I let it go it would collapse on to a teapot and mugs still waiting to be cleared from the sideboard , which would confuse the situation still further . |
| 17 | The summary is essentially confined to factual information , otherwise it would take on the shape of a formal report requiring certain strict legal procedures — of which more later . |
| 18 | it would take on . |