Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes at night I 'd find myself beyond the souks in narrow lanes between windowless houses . |
| 2 | If I simply concentrated on reducing the network , I would involve myself in a long and profitless public , political and industrial row . |
| 3 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 4 | Anytime after nine o'clock on the Friday evening I would lock myself into the office with typewriter , plenty of paper and a full bottle of Teacher 's Highland Cream . |
| 5 | ‘ I would describe myself as a Communist but other Socialist traditions are also important . ’ |
| 6 | Amitha : I suppose , if asked , I would describe myself as a Black Gujarati lesbian . |
| 7 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life . |
| 9 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 10 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 11 | I would see myself as a feminist and a socialist and I think socialism is the only form of just government a just way of running any sort of society , that can give people any sort of dignity . |
| 12 | I would declare myself in the waiting-room of a railway station if it were necessary ) , he said that I was humiliating him . |
| 13 | Led by Lord Pugh , the Fists would punch their way through into the city , the treacherous city which would reconfigure itself like a machine so as to funnel them unwittingly . |
| 14 | Just ge go anywhere sh I 'm sure she 'd entertain herself at the shops , she 'd be quite happy |
| 15 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
| 16 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 17 | Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him . |
| 18 | Art History as a subject was not yet available at Cambridge : she would attach herself to the Courtauld Institute . |
| 19 | She would represent herself as an angel of light and make her kind master and benefactor a devil incarnate . |
| 20 | She would let herself into the flat and be waiting for Rachaela behind her screen . |
| 21 | In another moment she would find herself on the other side of the door , facing disaster . |
| 22 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 23 | ‘ All the people in this valley is descended from four brothers from Scotland called Leekie , ’ Nana sat heavily down on the upright rush-seated chair which was the most she would permit herself in the way of comfort , and began the tale as Martha had always heard her tell it . |
| 24 | She would confine herself to the final phase of Marie 's life . |
| 25 | Now , with Benjamin James Titford , the eldest son of Benjamin the Silversmith and Elizabeth , we encounter a craftsman 's son who would establish himself as a member of the professional classes — by becoming a schoolmaster . |
| 26 | You might walk down sombre corridors and gaze upon dim , seldom-used halls , and you might run your hand across the scarred surfaces of the old walls , and then , without the least warning , you would find yourself in a sun-drenched quadrangle , or a courtyard where gentians grew or mountain ash flared . |
| 27 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 28 | I reasoned like you , my lord , that they 'd rid themselves of the load , it would only slow them down . |
| 29 | They would ally themselves with the united Labour forces and afford the possibilities of developing a mighty Peoples Front which will bring down the National Government . " |
| 30 | Picking up their phones , they would thrust themselves on the punters , ramming stock , which was often of little value , down their throats . |