Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 2 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |
| 3 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 4 | But for now , she would not allow herself to think , she would rest for a few hours and then make arrangements to deal with business matters . |
| 5 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 6 | She would drown within a few minutes . |
| 7 | As you would expect from a former private home , the bedrooms vary both in size and decor . |
| 8 | It was the kind of immaculate timing you would expect from a former BBC producer . |
| 9 | Because if if you took the the ideas of Freud 's seriously , and a lot of people who work with groups , the therapeutic groups claim to , do you think you would come to the same conclusion as Heather , I mean c could you have for example a , a psychotherapeutic group could you do group psychotherapy ? |
| 10 | In that we would go through the same procedure , whether they lived in |
| 11 | They would stay for a few months and go back . |
| 12 | I do n't know what they would do under the same circumstances . |
| 13 | as if they would move in the same circles . |
| 14 | South Africa have employed a potent cocktail of running and kicking in their three tour victories and coach John Williams pledged they would continue in the same vein . |
| 15 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 16 | Probably a long way from his home town , he would suffer from the same economic deprivation and social stigmatization experienced by the police strikers in 1919 , without the latter 's support and solidarity . |
| 17 | She would be seated in front of his desk before he allowed himself to be near her ; then he would lean against the same side of the desk as she . |
| 18 | He was then still slightly shy in company , though sharp and confident in other areas and among his equals , like the pool halls where he would hustle for a few dollars . |
| 19 | He did not feel that he needed to apologize , and said that if similar circumstances arose he would act in the same way . |
| 20 | He was assured that he would hear in a few days . |
| 21 | The computer had located the catalogue , and it would arrive in a few minutes . |
| 22 | It would amount to no more than the patient being dragged around with maximum support , using his unaffected side to try to keep up , and holding on to his helpers for dear life . |
| 23 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 24 | It would work in the same way as the gas and electricity national grids . |