Example sentences of "i would [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I chose to go to South Africa in 1988 , knowing full well that in so doing I would miss out on England 's tour to Australia and Fiji . |
| 2 | I would stay on in Al Ain , making my own way to London in time for his return . |
| 3 | When I first moved here I would wander around for days , not knowing where my home was . |
| 4 | I would refer back to Sir Peter Hall 's comment on Present Laughter here — for him the failure of that play is in direct proportion to its not being about homosexuals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I think I would go along with Lesley and say that there comes a point where erm government initiatives need to be taken . |
| 7 | Now , I rather wish it was talking about lay presidency and I would go along with Nannette on the question of a lay person presiding in communion . |
| 8 | I would go back to Toronto , I thought , and see her . |
| 9 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 10 | I said I would sign up with pleasure on one condition . |
| 11 | Your idea that the King and I would lean back in indolence , allowing Famagusta to fatten and snigger , throwing away all the months of striving so that you could save your thick skin from a fight ? ’ |
| 12 | At present usage I would run out of batteries before the half-way point and Mick and Paddy would run out just after . |
| 13 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |
| 14 | However , if death was unavoidable I would come back as Arthur Miller . |
| 15 | I did zip the tent flap shut , but wasted no other time on housekeeping ; I would come back in daylight to tidy up and replace the stores I had used . |
| 16 | I would get back from work absolutely exhausted . |
| 17 | We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked . |
| 18 | Olsen points out that this sort of imagery is alienating for poets who happen to be women ; I would point out in addition the rather sinister implication that men are somehow masters of language , so that they and not we are entitled to decide her fate . |
| 19 | ‘ I made an awful lot of money and I was still a reporter with The Northern ‘ I remember I would turn up to journalists ’ union meetings wearing a Walls ice cream coat . ’ |