Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's not the mystery around it really and I 've sort of made that into one of my points about =bout my work and also erm I always thought perhaps once I became wealthy and had money I would do real paintings in oil and canvass . |
| 2 | I would wear extra layers of clothing and pull the sleeves of my sweater down to hide my white , numbed fingers . |
| 3 | I would prefer two divisions of the Championship and , in time , perhaps of the Sunday League , with promotion and relegation . |
| 4 | Tomorrow I would find chemical solutions to these new problems . |
| 5 | ‘ Sanitary towel ’ were dirty words , and I would steal two shillings from his pocket to buy them when the need arose . |
| 6 | At school I would follow certain rules in an ostentatious manner ( while breaking others in secret ) and become severe , even morally censorious , towards those who lapsed from my hypocritically high standards . |
| 7 | To make this possible , I would need 500 acres at £1500/acre including a house and buildings . ’ |
| 8 | During this time I would stifle all feelings of guilt . |
| 9 | I would appreciate advance details of services likely to be affected by the boreholes . |
| 10 | I used to go to these houses with all the other kids , and you could hear the parents , someone would say , but he 's not very like his father , and then they 'd all explain in voices you could hear a mile away , and I would get funny looks from all the rest . |
| 11 | I could n't , I , I would , if , if , if the company were n't so refined I would say other things about them but I do n't give a hoot . |
| 12 | Now if you have a rolling programme and you wan na say we refurbish four at a time , roughly I would say fifty beds in these two hundred , give or take some money because they vary . |
| 13 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 14 | If somebody told me to strictly control the car I would put both hands on the steering wheel but not necessarily both feet on the er brake pedal . |
| 15 | I would guide such readers to the ‘ Suggested Further Reading ’ section at the end of the book . |
| 16 | I believe that the out-half position will prove troublesome for the Lions in New Zealand as I would have serious reservations about Stuart Barnes being the right player under the type of physical pressure he is likely to be subjected to in the important matches . |
| 17 | I would have four pairs of dwarfs , or three pairs of dwarfs and one of the larger species . |
| 18 | Of course , I would have few grounds for complaint had the words attributed to me been my own . |
| 19 | If the distance between bait and bullet was , say , 12 inches , then I would have 12 inches of line that would be out of my control . |
| 20 | It was , I thought , the last time that she would make sarky remarks about a fellow medium 's performance . |
| 21 | This activity was something she was the most proud of , one of the first things she would tell new friends about her work . |
| 22 | But she would have those things for ever ; she would have them in her head , in her memories and her dreams , and no one could take that away from her . |
| 23 | Here , then , in a temenos , a holy place , cut off from the profane , she would have ten days of solitude . |
| 24 | But after they had eaten she would take his head in her lap and comb his hair , or she would play sweet tunes on her pair of bone pipes . |
| 25 | Diana had known she was marrying into a close family , but she was unprepared for how claustrophobic it would be , or how dull she would find long spells in their company , with their passion for dogs and horses . |
| 26 | She would fall thirty feet to the beach below , and they would find her , crushed and broken , beneath what was left of the chair . |
| 27 | In March of the following year her ambassador in Paris publicly apologised and promised that in future she would recognise French claims to precedence . |
| 28 | If you find this acceptable , I would be grateful if you would sign both copies of the letter and return one to me , keeping the other for your files . |
| 29 | I append a list of the 15 drawings that we should like to borrow , and should be grateful if you would assign individual values to them so that I may arrange for them to be covered by government indemnity while in our care . |
| 30 | These qualities are rare and we would be grateful if you would send any recommendations to the Travel Editor , Harpers & Queen , National Magazine House , 72 Broadwick Street , London W1 . |