Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd stay in the top class cos you got |
| 2 | " I think Uncle rather hoped I 'd live in the two rooms at the back but they smell a bit too powerfully of monkey and parrot so I 've moved up into his flat . |
| 3 | I did n't know whether I 'd put in the right number and I thought well I 'll , I wo n't let anyone answer it , I 'll just re-dial . |
| 4 | I must admit , if I had if I actually had to say , which of all those would I be most happy not playing , I 'd say In the Bleak Midwinter , but |
| 5 | The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building , just outside the city gates . |
| 6 | But the answer to these fundamental questions must follow a review of the law as understood at present , which I would express in the following propositions . |
| 7 | And er this of course er we th the office was being run I would think in the early twenties very much like it was done in the late nineties . |
| 8 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 9 | Sometimes I would sit in the deserted church of San Madin , a small twelfth-century romanesque building just off the Plaza Mayor , on the Plaza Poeta Iglesias . |
| 10 | I had become so eidetically adept that I could make these phantom partners mutate in mid-thrust , so that while I might penetrate a swivel-hipped virgin , clean and childishly scented , I would come in the flabby , dentureless , food-flecked mouth of an octogenarian . |
| 11 | What had now to be resolved was exactly what role I would play in the new venture . |
| 12 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 13 | " You take after your father , liking sex , " she 'd say in the regretful tone you might use for a hereditary disease . |
| 14 | I remember the days when bit meant a bird , but not the sort you 'd find in the same cage as the sick parrot . |
| 15 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 16 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 17 | She would play in the dark shed , where there were millions of daddy-long-legs , or stand about watching him while he dug . |
| 18 | Well you would stick in the cheapest one . |
| 19 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 20 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 21 | We decided that for the Capital Guarantee Bond we would advertise in the national press . |
| 22 | When harmonizing a piece we must decide what kind of horizontal spread we would like in the harmonic atmosphere . |
| 23 | In the course of this latest war , Douglas Hurd has said that the British state has ‘ no interest in interfering in Iraq , any more than we would interfere in the internal affairs of another country ’ . |
| 24 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 25 | whether they 'd stay in the right shape or not . |
| 26 | Though maybe they 'd turn in the other direction , looking for a different angle ? |
| 27 | We then sprayed them with water for our picture and the instant transformation showed just how very good they 'd look in the right setting . |
| 28 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 29 | It is generally expected that the profits firms receive as a result of collusion exceed those they would earn in the one-shot NE , otherwise they might as well not collude . |
| 30 | Two of the great houses in Jane Austen 's novels , Donwell and Northanger , have their origin in abbeys ; but they acquire no spiritual dimension in consequence , as they would do in the Victorian novel , where the proportion of great houses grown from abbeys must surely exceed the proportion of those that , like Fountains Hall , actually did so in fact . |