Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 How could you believe that I 'd do such a thing ? ’
2 I 'd want all the love he had to give .
3 Do you think I 'd walk all the way , like poor Carlo ? ’
4 Tip — I think the world of Tip junior and I did the father ; they helped me a lot — just did n't realize I 'd come all the way over from Ireland by boat and by train up to St Andrews to carry Arnold 's bag .
5 Yes , they looked in the bag , but I 'd put all the stuff away by then , and they found nothing .
6 Then I 'd take all the straw off the floor .
7 I 'd say half an hour .
8 ‘ But first I 'd like all the dope Paula has dug up on INCUBUS … ’
9 I 'd run all the way home , put it on the table and say , ‘ There you are , I 'm better than you , our Dad ! ’
10 Also I would give half the furniture in this room for a good strong cup of steaming hot coffee and a couple of aspirins .
11 And I would welcome such an inspection and report .
12 And , as usual , I would swear such an oath .
13 I would find that a nuisance !
14 A number of meetings were set up during which we discussed how I would approach such a project .
15 Yet , surely I would remember such an apparition ?
16 ‘ I am horrified that somebody would do such a thing .
17 For the only fact which would justify such a difference in claim is one which is not available to me ; facts about the afternoon 's weather are evidence-transcendent in the morning .
18 Nobody can suggest that you can by any arithmetical calculation establish what is the exact sum of money which would represent such a thing as the pain and suffering which a person has undergone by reason of an accident …
19 It was the task of the Uthwatt Committee , from whose report this quotation is taken , to devise a scheme which would make such a basis possible . ’
20 IF England could hold their own against Pakistan , it would not only be a great achievement , but one which would make all the difference to their chances of regaining the Ashes from Australia in 1993 .
21 It was the time when her mother took to the couch because she could n't stand the sight and sound of the hordes of women and children with their buckets , and the arranged fights among the urchins so that one or two of their gang could get away with some lumps of coal , which would make all the difference between having a fried meal or freezing both inside and out .
22 Wages did not rise in proportion , and by the Spring of 1795 there was the extensive distress and threat of mass starvation which led , in May , to the infamous meeting of the magistrates at Speenhamland in Berkshire , an event which would have such an impact on poor-law provision for the next few decades .
23 Oh , no , the little bastard 's more interested in seeing his patron , his generous master , hunted , beaten and starving in some rotting gaol or facing terrors which would reduce many a man to an inmate of Bedlam .
24 Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’
25 ‘ I never imagined she 'd do such a thing . ’
26 Er very prim and proper , and and er er she 'd go all the way round and she 'd soon tell you if there was , if the beds were n't tidy .
27 She also said she 'd poison all the food in his larder , only the larder was locked .
28 But when she had asked if they could n't warm the place up a bit with some pretty colors , Dr. Briant had said sharply that they had to avoid confusing their color appreciation tests later , and she 'd have all the color she wanted then .
29 For example , you might decide you want the speed of the processor to be over 33MHz but it 's not essential — so you 'd give this a rating of two out of five .
30 Er they 're the sort of things that if you were if you were digging on a site you 'd find these every day , you 'd find an awful lots of them , er and they 're really what the people of the time think of as rubbish .
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