Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If I might be so bold , for one who missed out on so much ( and not just in a cricket sense ) , I would offer a few words of advice .
2 But it is not in the forces involved that I would locate the main divide in Britten 's operas .
3 When I was released , I was so relieved that I swore I would lead a normal life — no more endless walks .
4 ‘ If I had my way , I would burn the entire place to the ground and hang Fitzosbert on a scaffold as high as the sky .
5 I would capture a fresh wasp that afternoon to use the following morning .
6 And I decided that next day I would draw an honest sketch of myself , and then one of Blanche Ingram , painting the most lovely face I could imagine , according to Mrs Fairfax 's description .
7 I surveyed the scene around me and vowed that when I grew up I would marry a rich man who would carry me away from all this noise and squalor .
8 If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington .
9 The hours , well sometimes I would do a double shift which was sixteen hours .
10 I would do no hard training for a month afterwards and not race for about six weeks ’
11 Whilst I was in Aachen the Head of Swedish Radio invited me to Stockholm to conduct the new Radio Orchestra and I was asked if I would do the Sixth Symphony , which was quite new then and very little known .
12 I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over
13 It would be the amount of I would anticipate the managed fund .
14 My father , , who retired from two years ago , asked if I would visit a fellow pensioner — .
15 To connect these two points , I would stress the obvious point which may be forgotten when one simply looks at the fortunes of particular party organizations .
16 Instead I warmed up retracing the predawn walk to Cross where I would collect the big rucksack and the last bus to Stornoway .
17 I would urge a few women of a higher class to resolutely enter upon an apprenticeship for this purpose . "
18 Mike and I had quickly established a routine : our day would start at 4.30am , when I would cook a massive breakfast to last Mike the whole day .
19 If I had the opportunity , which I have not had , to go round the rest of Scotland , perhaps I would form the same view of the rest .
20 That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’
21 I would expect the American people would also react very favourably to it . ’
22 I 'd have thought an organisation like Amnesty would be in the forefront of anti-sexism , but I 've come across sexism before where I would expect an enlightened attitude ( eg Greenpeace )
23 I would stop the frantic activity and just follow the leads that came my way .
24 But I would want a constant dialogue , through various means of communication , to learn about what is going on throughout the whole constituency .
25 For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on .
26 If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ?
27 My brother said that I would make a good banker .
28 And at school they said I would make a good teacher .
29 I think I would make a lovely doggie model .
30 I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much .
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