Example sentences of "i would [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could see the one-eyed god down there now I 'd lean out of the window and tell it everything . |
| 2 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 3 | I 'd meet up with the others again on top and we 'd descend together . |
| 4 | I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I 'd wake up to the fact that you 're pa , I , I I , there 's too many here . |
| 5 | I 'd wake up in the morning and.find a line of girls outside my front door . |
| 6 | I 'd wake up in the mornings , unable to face another day on that film . |
| 7 | Sometimes I 'd wake up in the middle of the night , hearing music in my dreams , and I 'd look down out of the bedroom window . |
| 8 | I 'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you . |
| 9 | I 'd hunch down under the covers with just an air-hole to breath through , and shelter there . |
| 10 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd walk down to the Club and see you and Antony there , Daddy , but there were so many people , I could hardly move . |
| 12 | I 'd walk off to a respectful distance — I had no desire to listen to their conversation , there was nothing useful to pick up from that babble . |
| 13 | If I had any guts I 'd walk out of the front door now , this minute , and I 'd hitch my way to Italy and rent a shack in Tuscany , and I 'd paint trash to sell to the tourists in the Piazza della Signoria , and I 'd paint … |
| 14 | Sometimes , nights on the farm , I 'd sit out in the grass with Auntie Muriel and her guitar . |
| 15 | If I did leave it , I 'd stay up in the evening to do it , it 'd be on my conscience … |
| 16 | I said I 'd stay here with the kids . |
| 17 | Oh , and I 'd stay out of the swimming pool for a few days if I were you , unless you can keep your head above water . |
| 18 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 19 | And I 'd go farther for a chance to have a look at people from this planet of mystery . |
| 20 | So he asked me if I 'd go in for a couple of weeks until he got something sorted out you know . |
| 21 | I dreaded seeing him , and thought I 'd go out for the evening , but then I realized there was no point in that , it was only putting off the inevitable . |
| 22 | ‘ If I were younger and had the money , I 'd go back to the Orient — to study the modern Orient , the Orient of the Isthmus of Suez . |
| 23 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 24 | I 'd go back to the Caribbean if I . |
| 25 | I 'd go down through the choir practice room and St Andrew 's chapel beneath it , make a quick call at the sacristy ( where Holy Harding does his serving ) , then cross the quire to the south side , where , with the help of the Talisman of Shag , I would enter the-spiral stair at ground level , and so — relicless but , hopefully , bearing precious manna for the invalid — to the Sanatorium ( formerly known as the Wheel Room ) and , after that , bed . |
| 26 | I 'd go down to the bottom and try all the locks , come up , go along the next street . |
| 27 | Anyway , I 'd go down to the schoolroom . |
| 28 | If this guitar were mine , I 'd be tempted to experiment , probably starting with Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro IIs , and then maybe I 'd end up with a guitar that was a perfect cross between the JD and the Signature . |
| 29 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up outside the ground propositioning people , ’ he said . |
| 30 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |