Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , the , so something must be done quickly , I fear , about the er , management er of er , er the , the new structure and I hope you would agree to it unless anyone else has got , yes ? |
| 2 | When he was enthusiastic about a subject , and I imagined he would turn his back on anything about which he could not enthuse , he leant forward on his bar stool , his thigh beating against it . |
| 3 | And I mean I would like to go offshore again , just to prove to myself whether I could or could not do it . |
| 4 | I , I mean it 's only by the good will of the police that we can get down there and that , , this is , this is my concern Mr Chairman , in , in theory what I would like , if there was a serious emergency , you 'd get a senior officer in here straight away , and I mean he would negate to the police , we have no authority over them , only cooperate with the police . |
| 5 | I could have resisted him until we were married , and I know he would have waited , but it was me who did n't want to wait . |
| 6 | product , we 've just got one row for one product at the moment but in the future you might want to insert another row and er the product B and then all I would need to do is just copy the formula down and I know it would work cos I made it copyable down as well . |
| 7 | I think they mean that I look fat and ugly and I wish they would keep their remarks to themselves . |
| 8 | In fact , looking back , I ca n't think of anyone who ever understood her , except you , and I wish you would come and see her and take her out of herself . |
| 9 | Seeing blocky and uninteresting sprites slowly hacking each other into oblivion does n't thrill me in any big way and I doubt it would excite anyone else . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think he slipped , Mowbray would have been too careful , and I doubt he would have let someone push him off the parapet walk without a struggle . ’ |
| 11 | Faith Hillman and I thought we would enjoy this unique opportunity to fly over twenty countries , retracing the ‘ Empire Air Route ’ flown by mail carriers sixty years ago . |
| 12 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 13 | ‘ Not necessarily , ’ she demurred , ‘ but she was kind , and I thought I would like to buy her a wedding present — and because you kindly took me in when you did n't want to , ’ she tacked on softly . |
| 14 | He was so unlucky with the weather and I thought it would dishearten him , but he just kept going . |
| 15 | and I thought it would cost ten pound . |
| 16 | ‘ I happened to see it on my way back from the nursing-home and I thought it would go particularly well with the dress . ’ |
| 17 | The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment . |
| 18 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 19 | I did it myself a while ago but the silicone has gone rather mouldy and I thought he would make a better job ! |
| 20 | And I thought he would say something like , you know something really silly , about fifty , sixty thousand , but he said I think a hundred and fifty thousand 's enough . |
| 21 | What particularly worried me about the whole issue of opting out was that some of the services that the Local Education Authority provide are minority services , and I feared they would go by the board . |
| 22 | ‘ They had tasted blood and I feared they would attack someone else . |
| 23 | And I bet you would have added : ‘ You might hurt yourself , too . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It would make horrible great holes in you , ’ explained Lydia , ‘ and I imagine it would hurt like hell . ’ |
| 25 | I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people 's eye than what 's there at the present . |
| 26 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 27 | ‘ We were talking about ransoms too and I said I would pay to save the life — ’ |
| 28 | I had developed an extreme closeness with two of the doctors , and I called them , and they both agreed to go in and evaluate Ron 's condition and get back to me , and I said I would abide by their decision . |
| 29 | Herman gave me some pretty match-boxes , and I said I would put one in Joanna 's Christmas stocking . |
| 30 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |