Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fathers who , for example , induce their daughters of this age to fellate or masturbate them would thus become liable for incest . |
| 2 | When I confronted him outside the refectory and insisted that the resident be allowed to finish his meal , he exploded in a torrent of foul language and vowed he would never return . |
| 3 | I loved those girls and was sad to leave them and know I would never see them again . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the pilot of Beyond Our Ken was listened to by the BBC mandarins , who decided they liked a great deal about it and decreed it would definitely become a radio series . |
| 5 | ‘ Morning , ratface , ’ she said , quite affectionately because after that momentary frisson she had remembered the duck and known she would never love him again . |
| 6 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 7 | That , sadly , is a market at work , and suppressing it would only bestow the seedy glamour of the underground . |
| 8 | I was more than mildly impressed with Miss Semmens and decided I would certainly have to see her again — and soon . |
| 9 | Something was restored to her which she had lost and believed she would never find again . |
| 10 | Spokesman Simon Boxer said : ‘ It was dreamed up 20 years ago when scientists believed nuclear power would save the world and feared we would soon run out of uranium . |
| 11 | The book alleged the Princess suffered from bulimia and felt she would never become Queen . |
| 12 | My father was a professional soldier and I was conscious of his excellence and knew I would never achieve that excellence . |
| 13 | She stood with the cape drenched about her , the rain at her back , and knew she would never go back to the Lodge . |
| 14 | Kay had seen an advert in the Daily Record about parachuting at Strathallan Airfield near Auchterarder and thought it would definitely bring in sponsor money . |
| 15 | Abbado is also a joy , and Barenboim I would now count as a personal friend . |
| 16 | Greece dropped its hardline position over the weekend and said it would now accept the word Macedonia in the republic 's name — but only if this was the result of binding arbitration . |
| 17 | But she spoke to them all and said she would never forget them . |
| 18 | The Greek prime minister , Mr Constantine Mitsotakis , looks downright incompetent : at first he said he would pardon the guilty men , then took that back and said he would merely release them . |
| 19 | We were playing in France , in a place called Cognac and this kid came up to me , gave me a guitar and said he would really like me to test it for him . |
| 20 | ‘ Lille ’ , wrote a local observer in 1869 , ‘ is not a capitalist town , it is first and foremost a great industrial and commercial centre ’ where men put their profits back into the business , did not play about with them , and hoped they would never have to borrow . |
| 21 | The driver felt sure the attendant had caught on , and hoped he would now walk away without showing it . |
| 22 | Coun Richmond then called on the Tory group to support the Labour measure but claimed it would never have been proposed without the prompt of his motion . |
| 23 | I hand initially intended to start this column with the first sentence of what is now its second paragraph , but felt it would amusingly underscore the premise of the piece — the ubiquity and infinite adaptability of Magritte 's once exclusively surrealist insights — were it to open thus . |
| 24 | She sensed his waiting for her confidence , but knew he would never pressure her into saying anything she would rather not . |
| 25 | Ken believed in a supreme being , but said he would never pray for help if he got into trouble . |