Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And of course you imagine I would stay still and do nothing ? ’ |
| 2 | When I slept I would dream that one came , and drove on past without knowing I was here ; then I would wake up and run to the road looking for a tail light disappearing . |
| 3 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 4 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 5 | Do you think I would stand aside and let you suffer , as my mother did ? |
| 6 | We would discuss themes , then I would go away and write them . |
| 7 | And whatever each one chose I would go off and tell them the loveliest sort of |
| 8 | Indeed , I would go further and conclude that at least in relation to the last three payments the plaintiffs were not under a mistake of law but were strongly of the view that they were under no liability to pay . |
| 9 | I would go further and suggest that it is also ideologically unsound . |
| 10 | I would go further and suggest these meetings should be open to ‘ all-comers ’ and should highlight a topic of local interest to attract potential recruits . |
| 11 | I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers . |
| 12 | I would go further and say : do not apply at all . |
| 13 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |
| 14 | I would go further and assert that typing simple programs into the computer is a useful spelling and reading experience . |
| 15 | For his performance of ‘ But who may abide ’ alone I would go out and buy this Messiah even if the rest were trash . |
| 16 | There was no doubt in my mind that I would go out and prove myself and answer all those questions about me . ’ |
| 17 | I thought that I would go in and explain the whole thing to him and explain that there was no point in creating trouble unnecessarily . |
| 18 | Did you think I would sit here and wait for you to kill me . |
| 19 | I never thought today I would sit here and criticize very severely |
| 20 | You could for a need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and insert i n't , could you not ? |
| 21 | Next day , I promised myself , I would come back and explore these streets by daylight . |
| 22 | ‘ I adored Bristol and if I had to live anywhere in the world , I would come back and live here . |
| 23 | ‘ You all look so attractive I thought I would come in and say hello . |
| 24 | I would get off and push . |
| 25 | If there was water to spare I would smarten up and shave , regardless of where I was , and I might cook myself a treat , kippers or pilchards . |
| 26 | The house was sold off and I ended up inheriting 12,000 dollars , so I went straight out and bought an AG 440 Ampex professional four track machine and took it up to my father 's coffee plant , and every night when he left I would drive up and work on Stevie 's and my songs . |
| 27 | Soccer officialdom , as Mr Clough observed ‘ thought I would take over and run the show . |
| 28 | ‘ John and I would trundle up and wind them up . ’ |
| 29 | There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care . |
| 30 | I thought I would look up and see King Tut staring down with a hacksaw blade in his hand . ’ |