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Example sentences for "would sometimes"

  • But he would sometimes get it all in goods, I suppose?

  • He would sometimes refuse to give above a quarter pound of tea on a 9s.

  • In that case it would sometimes be reduced to 5 per cent.

  • What have I to do with their private lives,” he would sometimes say, “in the kind of work I require of them?

  • I would sometimes say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men.

  • Those who knew Bonaparte, his cunning, and the artful advantage he would sometimes take of words which he attributed to the dead, will easily solve the enigma.

  • How many, times have I seen him extended on the ground, examining the beautiful maps which he had brought with him, and he would sometimes make me lie down in the same position to trace to me his projected march.

  • These he ploughed himself, with two miserable cows; and was only distinguished from his peasant neighbors by the book which he carried to the field, and which he would sometimes hold in one hand, while the other directed the plough.

  • The young stranger, too, would sometimes embark in the middle of the day for less distant expeditions.

  • How I regret,' he would sometimes say, loud enough for me to hear, 'that I have no son!

  • He would sometimes walk up and down the Leas between twenty and thirty times after supper, desiring much the courage to speak to some other person in the multitude similarly employed.

  • He would sometimes in their lessons hit upon some reminiscence of these brighter days, and then he would laugh inexplicably and repeat French phrases of an unfamiliar type.

  • I don't know, for I would sometimes pretend to be afraid merely to enjoy the pretending.

  • In the old days I would sometimes tell my dreams to Mrs Ballard; and she would look them up in a frowsy book she kept in the dresser drawer, a brown, grease-stained volume entitled Napoleon's Book of Fate.

  • When I was alone in my room I would sometimes skip.

  • Nights, up in Guamocó, when I had finished my work, and when I was so lonely, I would sometimes light my candle and try to write out the thoughts that came to me.

  • You can never make me believe, Padre," he would sometimes say to the priest, "that the little Carmen was not left by the angels on the river bank.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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