Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 3 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 4 | But he seemed to be about to ring off , and I said I 'd go round the next day . |
| 5 | However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night . |
| 6 | I 'd come round the next lap and see the black line I 'd just laid . |
| 7 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 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 | I would hope over the next few years we actually do move towards increasing towards that but I think we will have some severe difficulties , particularly with the planning department where large numbers of members of the public do visit the area . |
| 10 | On getting there I calculated when I would arrive at the next post , where I promised myself lunch . |
| 11 | Oh it 's no been too bad at all I would say since the first of the new year it seems to be improved remarkably . |
| 12 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 13 | I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’ |
| 14 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 15 | Admission to a psychiatric unit was not thought necessary because she was able to make realistic plans concerning how she would cope during the next few days , and support was available from her children . |
| 16 | She said that she would travel by the next one and should be at the hotel about eight clock . |
| 17 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 18 | And she would do it , Emily clenched her hands into fists , she would fight to the last breath to keep her heritage and to preserve the good name of the Grenfells . |
| 19 | The two suitcases represented everything she thought she would need for the next seven months at the Hamiltons ' , and it seemed like an odd way to be taking what might be a big step in her life . |
| 20 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 21 | So we thought we 'd walk to the next stop , and then we see this bag on the floor . |
| 22 | They seemed to be breaking up , and to the west a different valley - the one we would descend into the next day — was filling with a luminous gold haze . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Busacher rather thought they would rub through the next few days without an open revolt from Gesner . |
| 25 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 26 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 27 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 28 | In this respect , San Francisco 's version of the exhibition gains from the proximity of ‘ Collection ’ , that important triptych of paint and collaged material belonging to the museum , in which Rauschenberg rehearsed the full range of the combined techniques which he would employ for the next ten years . |
| 29 | Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse , and when he arrived in this hard world , it was very doubtful whether he would live beyond the first three minutes . |
| 30 | Always during this period the same paper was used , although a rumour that it would change at the next sitting was constantly promulgated by dealers who had once cheated , to discourage others from doing likewise . |