Example sentences of "and [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 2 | If I talked too much at first or laughed at something , it broke the spell and everyone would start talking to me . |
| 3 | The SI thought you just had to show how the nightmare worked and everyone would wake up . |
| 4 | Angy had been stabbed in the throat and that 's exactly what he 'd done to her portrait … he was afraid that would all come out and everyone would think he 'd done it . ’ |
| 5 | We 'd walk into that Church Hall , and everyone would gasp . |
| 6 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 7 | The Czar was going to visit the wards at 10 a.m. next day and everyone would get a medal . |
| 8 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 9 | Rehearsals were held in Gedge 's bedroom where he would play a toy electric organ and everyone would take a turn drumming on a Smash tin lid . |
| 10 | She would talk loudly and at length and everyone would have to listen to her or they 'd get no food . |
| 11 | Other income came from the calves we had to spare and everyone would lose quite a bit of sleep when the cows were calving since the event would invariably happen in the middle of the night and it was often necessary to play midwife in case of complications . |
| 12 | Or perhaps she would paint a picture of Oliver and it would be hung in the National Gallery and everyone would come and look at it and weep because it was so beautiful . |
| 13 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 14 | But the publicity machine had come into operation and nothing would stop it . |
| 15 | And nothing would detain her . |
| 16 | " It took up too much space Malcolm said and nothing would grow near it . " |
| 17 | On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card . |
| 18 | And once you 'd made your decision , you dug your feet in and nothing would make you change your mind . |
| 19 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 20 | It is not meant to be an exclusive list , and nothing would please us more than to hear from readers about others — or their shortcomings , if the case deserved it . |
| 21 | It did n't take much to persuade her to come and nothing would have prevented me from seeing precisely what it was that had turned my schoolfriend into what the Daily Express called ‘ a phenomena ’ . |
| 22 | And nothing would have happened if Angelique had started work yesterday , as she 'd promised . |
| 23 | I could leave everything lying about on the floor and nothing would get broken ! |
| 24 | What she meant , she told herself , was that no living creature would choose to be a pet , and nothing would opt for imprisonment , and when she went home she 'd feel trapped and , if she did n't know it was happening , she 'd rather be shot — as long as she did n't see the bullet coming . |
| 25 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | down his trouser-leg and nothing would happen . |
| 28 | He thought everything was easy to those who believed ; and nothing would persuade him that it was not so . |
| 29 | The crowd parted round him and no-one would meet his gaze . |
| 30 | It would be just reward for their recent form , and no-one would begrudge them the honour . |