Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather see you like that than making my bed for me , ’ said John . |
| 2 | ‘ They might have happened by now if you 'd just let me see this … opera , TV series , pop-up-book , whatever the hell it is ; and if you 'd let me talk to a few people . |
| 3 | It 's a very difficult one I think in a game that probably they 'd just let you do that . |
| 4 | I would not have him survive this only to die of a broken heart . ’ |
| 5 | She even very kindly offered to attend to things , but I would not let her do that because I knew I had to face up to my responsibilities . |
| 6 | She shut her mind to the fact that the pig was a living thing and as she drew the knife across its throat , she told herself that she would not let herself get this attached to any future pigs . |
| 7 | The white missionary before you would not let us have this ceremony , said Joseph . |
| 8 | ‘ You know Daddy would n't let them do that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If daddy was alive he would n't let him do this to me ! |
| 10 | I would n't let him know that . |
| 11 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 12 | Last year , after a fortnight 's holiday in California , his first for two years , he complained , ‘ My wife would n't let me take any work with me ’ . |
| 13 | But pride would n't let her do that — pride insisted she at least made an effort . |
| 14 | ‘ Rosie did n't have any money and the man who supplies the stuff would n't let her have any more . |
| 15 | and finding out what , what our er stomachs were like , whether the , the liquid in there is acidic , whether it 's an acid and do you know the girls were braver than the boys , the boys would n't let anyone do that to them . |
| 16 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |