Example sentences of "[pron] and [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have stuck pins into himself and it would have taken ten seconds for his body to complain . |
| 2 | I never saw an enormous lot of Basil except when he was passing through London and he wanted to buy pictures etc. and he would then come to see me and we would discuss them . |
| 3 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 4 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 5 | I also feel very sorry for him : he is the same age as me and I would hate to be put under the pressure that was evident in his shaking frame after his statement . |
| 6 | He had only to tell me and I would have found them for him . |
| 7 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 8 | Some of the chaps in other departments talk about things that are quite alien to me and I would have felt left out . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was training at Leeds yesterday morning and Mr Wilkinson came and said that Blackburn were in for me and I would have to go . |
| 10 | Oh oh yes they yes they would stay under a road bridge too because you would see the er er if you would look a a bridge and they would say oh there 's a tramp there 's a place there if you could tell me and you would see the rocks put up and where the bed was always above water level oh yes . |
| 11 | Th they sometimes brought their own two little boys with them and they would make the the bands to cut them bands to do the sheaves , so . |
| 12 | I think you children were a delight to them and they would gather round the swimming pool and cheer you on with swimming lessons . |
| 13 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 14 | When they were wet from rain or swimming in the oceans , the light might catch on some deep oil in them and they would glimmer shadowy rainbows of colour , like oil spills on a road . |
| 15 | They may reject you and isolate you because you are different from them and they would like to be like you . |
| 16 | If they could fly straight away their parents would never find them and they would starve ? |
| 17 | There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened . |
| 18 | We are very anxious to trace them and we would like them to come forward . ’ |
| 19 | But I do n't consider it really music ; it 's not music because anybody could take those words and learn how to say them and it would sound just as good with anybody else saying them . |
| 20 | ‘ I did a section on one incisor from each of them and I would estimate both the man 's and woman 's age as in the early twenties . ’ |
| 21 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 22 | On the question of registration of electors , clearly it is very important that if we now have less than nine weeks from this evening for those possibly four hundred thousand people to seek registration then the it is essential that the minister and the department er engage in a serious advertising campaign to ensure that people can exercise the rights that are due to them and I would like the minister perhaps in his later remarks , to expand on what , if any , measure the government intends to take to publicise the fact of E C voting rights to those four hundred thousand or so er European citizens of voting age resident in this country . |
| 23 | ‘ You think that she and I would make a happy married couple . |
| 24 | She and I would toss for it . |
| 25 | On Sunday mornings Auntie would bring it back clean , cook lunch — which always included the one vegetable I can stomach , ie beans-in-a-tin because they 're not disgusting green — and afterwards she and I would play the test match while Pa worked on his sermon . |
| 26 | He states in his letter to the Russians : ‘ On behalf of the Scottish fish processors may I say that we have appreciated the trading link that we have with you and we would hope that this will continue . |
| 27 | Then I 'd go down the town buy us all clothes then , you and I would go out for a private dinner Jean . |
| 28 | And if Jesus was around today he would be going to the places that you and I would think twice about going to , not because he wanted to have a good time , but because he wanted to relate to the people who were there . |
| 29 | question is , are we getting him quality like you and I would want |
| 30 | We 've all been a bit worried about you and I would love to see you . |