Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 2 | That 's the reason I have brought you to this quiet garden , not to some tavern where I would drink myself senseless . |
| 3 | Ahead I could see the Bomb Circle , where I would stop or turn . |
| 4 | ‘ They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job , being from the City , but I have n't found an instance where I would want to get rid of anyone . ’ |
| 5 | We walked to the boy 's mother 's house where I would stay while we worked on the bride house . |
| 6 | I suffered agonies of suspense in silence , for I never knew when or where I would see you again , or whether she would be with you . |
| 7 | My destination was Victoria station where I would try and catch a boat-train to France . |
| 8 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 9 | Head of Department : ‘ In 1976 I had a clear idea where I would like to be going : |
| 10 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 11 | I would enjoy a job where I would have to talk , persuade or advise people |
| 12 | A major installation of Beuys , ‘ Arena ( where I would have got if I had been intelligent ) ’ , created in 1970–72 ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , remains on exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts until mid-April , while the MoMA exhibition travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles ( 30 May-15 August ) , the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 10 October-2 January 1994 ) and the Art Institute of Chicago ( 15 February-25 April 1994 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 14 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 15 | Actually , I 'm in a situation now where I 'd love to be celibate … but I really love sex . |
| 16 | Where I 'd say right meaning I understand kind of thing but I 'm not saying that 's right I mean right . |
| 17 | My nose was running again , and my thumb was throbbing where I 'd cut it on the piece of glass in the bin . |
| 18 | I realised my elbow was throbbing painfully where I 'd hit the stone floor . |
| 19 | The temptation to return safely back up where I 'd come from was enormous . |
| 20 | I must have fainted , and when I came to I did n't know who I was or where I 'd come from . " |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't think of anywhere where I 'd get better working conditions than that . ’ |
| 22 | And since Ned would also be empowered to put up her rent and see to it that she was refused employment at the Beehive or the Dog and Gun , just where she would go had become a constant , gnawing ache never leaving the back of her mind . |
| 23 | She had no clear idea where she would go , and what she was going to do in a strange city with no money . |
| 24 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 25 | As a small child Eva was allowed to sit on a little stool next to the pianist at the Maryborough corps , where she would sing and clap during the meeting . |
| 26 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 27 | Queen Margaret had already left in a blaze of colour , escorted by Catesby and Agrippa , riding along Ropery , then Vintry Street into Thames Street , where she would meet a troop of her brother 's royal serjeants at Castle Baynard . |
| 28 | She could imagine it all back at Les Hiboux — was already planning out loud where she would place the various pieces , while Rohan and Monsieur Pallon exchanged indulgent glances , and settled the details of how and where it was all to be delivered . |
| 29 | Bound for Westminster Palace where she would remain as her daughter 's chaperon , the dowager-duchess , though well accustomed in her youth to court life , viewed the summons without enthusiasm . |
| 30 | After a hearty cooked breakfast the next morning , Meryl hurried to the hall to find a good seat where she would get the best out of the professor 's lecture . |