Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] this would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly I went ahead and circulated all potential volunteers with a call for the weekends of June 12-13 and June 19-20 , which at the time was two months away and I assumed this would allow enough time for SNH approval to come through . |
| 2 | In fact , I took three — I figured this would give me some insurance — then retired to a new seat to watch the board . |
| 3 | I decided this would divorce the plants and animals from their niche in the system as well as from each other . |
| 4 | I decided this would be a good experimental site on which to try my new detector , and for the first hour of detecting felt that I had been right in my assumption that I had really cleaned this place out . |
| 5 | I worked a lot with AIDS and I felt this would be good . |
| 6 | The flowers were mainly chosen to accentuate the overall silvery effect , but some of them also came from the ‘ bride 's ’ garden , as I felt this would give the picture additional meaning for her . |
| 7 | I knew this would happen ; I was almost prepared for it . |
| 8 | I knew this would happen , Masklin thought . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ I knew this would end up in the papers sooner or later . ’ |
| 10 | I knew this would happen . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew this would happen ! |
| 12 | So I knew this would come up but I did n't realize he 'd be jumping onto the bandwagon that quick . |
| 13 | I knew this would happen … ’ |
| 14 | I 've had my bath , after a satisfying day in the garden , and so I thought this would be a good moment to put pen to paper . |
| 15 | I thought this would put an end to the tyranny of clothes . |
| 16 | With memory widely advertised at about £30 per Mb I thought this would be the perfect Christmas present to myself . |
| 17 | I thought this would sort of save Steve having to write a letter as as he 'd been er instructed to do . |
| 18 | ‘ If you just ring them up you can not understand the problems they face so I thought this would be a good way that I could use myself as a focus on their work . ’ |
| 19 | Well there is not for Kathy but for Kathy she thought this would be . |
| 20 | You knew this would happen . |
| 21 | She felt this would make her ‘ singled out ’ , so she preferred to take on similar clerical work doing the accounts for her father 's farming business . |
| 22 | She hoped this would make them ‘ more visible and safer ’ . |
| 23 | She hoped this would all be useful experience , something she could Dream with . |
| 24 | We considered buying a coffee bar and being a presence in the market place , but we realised this would not be a suitable place for Sunday worship , and our attempts to buy a suitable shop were consistently blocked . |
| 25 | We realized this would be an appallingly large slice out of our budget , and certainly a piggish way to treat a boar . |
| 26 | Oh we knew this would happen . |
| 27 | I thought they might give us badges to wear with our names on , like at conferences ; but I suppose they thought this would imply we were n't even capable of uttering our own names . |
| 28 | Knowing a little of his circumstances by this time — at any rate , I knew what his job was — I asked him if he realised this would involve him in considerable expense . |
| 29 | He was about to fish out some more money when he realised this would make things worse — or at least his perception of things . |
| 30 | He realised this would be Springfield 's cordon of beaters driving the escaping sect heavies towards the highway , and he moved off in that direction himself . |