Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] [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 . |