Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I left , I would miss some people . ’ |
| 2 | If I set out to teach , rather than entertain , I would achieve neither . |
| 3 | I would applaud that . |
| 4 | He walked around the table now in an exaggerated pose , and Harry , laughing , said , ‘ If it was n't for spoiling Aunt Ellen 's work I would throw that centrepiece at you . ’ |
| 5 | In my review of the 3500 head , it was mentioned that Hartke had given the amp a no-nonsense look , and I would re-iterate that opinion here . |
| 6 | For those reasons , I would discharge this order . |
| 7 | But I would give much to get away from that house ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would give much to be able to do so … to have a home . |
| 9 | I would give all my life for that to happen . ’ |
| 10 | Sparrowgrass will probably start favourite as his form is consistently good , but as you ask , very likely the best horse , the one with most potential for the future , is Mercer Lorrimore 's Voting Right , and I would give that one the edge . ’ |
| 11 | I think the advice I would give any mother of an anorexic is to tell them how awful they look ! |
| 12 | ‘ To make you happy , Schätzchen , I would give more than a Brancusi , ’ Thomas said softly . |
| 13 | Also I would give half the furniture in this room for a good strong cup of steaming hot coffee and a couple of aspirins . |
| 14 | to it I would recheck that in October . |
| 15 | Characters such as broader incisors and enlarged maxillary sinuses are the only characters apart from the premaxillary/incisive complex ( see character 4 ) that Begun designates for the hominine clade , but I would interpret these as basal hominid characters ( node 2 on the cladogram in box 1 ) , not diagnostic of the hominine clade . |
| 16 | Er it is not asking the panel to n you know to draft a rite that would used and I , I would interpret this to mean that it 's asking the panel to look up the theological propriety if you like of such a rite and bring forward suggestions which would then be passed for implementation , if so decided , to the panel on worship . |
| 17 | I would tell any future House of Commons to study legislation more carefully and to legislate less . |
| 18 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 19 | I would paraphrase this as ‘ an English a cappella renaissance ’ |
| 20 | If the dark and impenetrable ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ can be penetrated , and recreated in air in the conscious mind ( ‘ I would build that dome in air ’ ) , and made into ‘ that sunny dome ! |
| 21 | I would build that dome in air , That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! |
| 22 | People say I kicked him in the head but there is no way I would do that . ’ |
| 23 | I du n no what 's wrong with me , why I would do that . |
| 24 | ‘ I would do that for about four days , and then go off on something else . |
| 25 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 26 | And so I said , Yes , I would do that for the year and then I 'd get back into teaching . |
| 27 | Each morning , I made a list , in coloured pens , of the things I would do that day . |
| 28 | ‘ How could you think I would do that ? |
| 29 | I would , I would do that yes . |
| 30 | I would do that next year . |