Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I simply concentrated on reducing the network , I would involve myself in a long and profitless public , political and industrial row . |
| 2 | ‘ I would describe myself as a Communist but other Socialist traditions are also important . ’ |
| 3 | Amitha : I suppose , if asked , I would describe myself as a Black Gujarati lesbian . |
| 4 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him . |
| 12 | She would represent herself as an angel of light and make her kind master and benefactor a devil incarnate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Soviets were cautious in character , not adventurous like Adolf had been ( could n't that change one wondered ? ) and , while the balance of terror continued , they would behave themselves to an extent . |
| 17 | And when it got particularly boring they would amuse themselves with a 15-minute rendition of ‘ Frank Clark knows my father ’ substituting the full back for the equally famous Lloyd George . |
| 18 | Apparently he asked Howard Samuel whether he would associate himself with an action to procure an injunction to restrain the manifesto , to which Howard Samuel had allegedly replied that he would . |
| 19 | He would treat himself to a seat in the front row . |
| 20 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 21 | He would lend himself to a deluge ; she would imagine water gushing into a basin . |
| 22 | When he came to a stream or a fallen tree trunk , he would launch himself like a ballet dancer , but in slow motion , and land as softly as if his feet were scatter cushions . |
| 23 | He would describe himself as a keen engineer rather than ‘ train spotter . ’ |
| 24 | Whenever he spoke , it would compose itself into a ghoulish grin . |