Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would soften like a season |
| 2 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
| 3 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 4 | I found cranking the boat over on its side did not help to turn it ( in the opposite direction ) as much as I would expect in a sea kayak . |
| 5 | On the way I would stop at a restaurant and have lunch and then continue , taking my time . |
| 6 | When I was small I would creep into a corner . |
| 7 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 8 | Mhm , it 's got ta be a world record that I would think in a world cup . |
| 9 | ‘ I would go for a newspaper and poster campaign . |
| 10 | If it was an ‘ either or ’ situation , I would go for a winch as it could be used for other jobs such as moving fallen trees or recovering other vehicles etc . |
| 11 | I loved it so much I promised myself I would go on a course one day when I was old enough . |
| 12 | I would go on a course which is gon na give you the qualifications that are gon na pay you a good sa salary . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance . |
| 14 | I can remember feeling so raw , both physically and emotionally , that I was n't sure how I would feel with a group of new people . |
| 15 | And I would realise with a pang that I had forfeited my right to concern . |
| 16 | Feeling very daring , I would sit in a circle with them on the grass in Powis Square , and pretend to drink deeply as the cider or barley wine bottle passed around . |
| 17 | I would prefer to a committee of people who have experience |
| 18 | I would return from a trek in the snow , to thaw out by the roaring flames , one side at a time , just like the bread on a toasting fork . |
| 19 | I 'm so pleased just to be here , I would sleep on a tent on the beach . |
| 20 | I would sleep in a breast ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ 'Security ’ may be important to you , but it is not so important to me that I would … that I would live with a man who was not my husband . |
| 22 | With my family growing up I was needing more money and er that 's when I decided I would apply for a foreman 's job at . |
| 23 | Well it er I was very it 's not a stately home it 's the equivalent I would say to a sort of erm lower landed gentry upper er working class sort of place . |
| 24 | I would say like a bit myself you know |
| 25 | They were n't on court settings so I would imagine in a court situation perhaps the impact of words is slightly higher , you might expect , but it 's still going to be a low percentage in respect of the overall conta image that 's put over . |
| 26 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |
| 27 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 28 | I think obviously I would agree with a lot of what what the districts have said there about the strategic importance of having such a policy . |
| 29 | Speaking on BBC TV 's Election Call programme , he said he could not provide ‘ an in-all-circumstances ’ undertaking on how his party would react , saying that he was being asked ‘ how I would play as a batsman the third ball in the fourth over after next . ’ |
| 30 | I would call for a ceasefire and a Middle East peace conference on the Gulf . |