Example sentences of "time [pers pn] would " in BNC.

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1 All the time I would like to be somewhere else , someone else .
2 That was not really convenient for me as I often did not know at what time I would return from saying Mass in the outstations .
3 At any other time I would probably telephone my agent and discuss this point for twenty minutes or so , for it is the kind of marginal detail which intrigues me and has never appeared to bore him .
4 If I had time I would like to make a collection of the many stories there are about great conductors because I think there is much to be learnt from them .
5 All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function .
6 If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer .
7 Taking a room at the YMCA I made side-trips to Victoria , Nanaimo and Seattle , and vowed that next time I would go further south to see San Francisco , Los Angeles , Hollywood and Mexico .
8 If he had given me the £5000 , under the rules at the time I would have had to donate 15 per cent to the British Board — totally unfair in my view as I had had to find the sponsorship myself .
9 At one time I would have suggested that everyone would shed surplus fat on a ration of 1,500 calories daily .
10 After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes .
11 To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing
12 In three years ' time I would be doing
13 In two years ' time I would be doing
14 In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives .
15 During this time I would stifle all feelings of guilt .
16 ‘ Next time I would keep my hands up — it was my own fault .
17 At one time I would buy a bottle of whiskey and pour it all over me before going home because I knew she would n't try to argue if she thought I was drunk .
18 Up in the Hebrides — and in time I would find myself filming mink there , too — the effect of the animals on ground-nesting birds such as common and arctic terns appears to be serious .
19 but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things
20 And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind .
21 They occupy a major part of my time — time I would prefer to be spending on actually trying to improve the services we offer .
22 By which time I would be off the ‘ purpose built ’ , heading for the spaces …
23 I would not calculate this time , this time I would try to select my route in a random way .
24 In the course of time I would die and then it would all be over .
25 If I noticed in time I would have to run after him and ask for it .
26 Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone .
27 This time I would have to lie down .
28 Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here .
29 It was the last time I would have to go .
30 ‘ At that time I would have done anything to finish the film .
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