Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I invented a task for myself , which would take me that way . |
| 2 | I though we 'd sit on her step , like we always did , and share out the Cadbury 's , and I 'd tell her about our school and she 'd tell me all about the nuns and everything , but when she opened the door she just stood there , all clean and different in her stiff long uniform still , and said , " I ca n't possibly play out tonight . |
| 3 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |
| 4 | I knew you 'd ask me that . |
| 5 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 6 | Sometimes after school we would visit their house and she would show me all her nice clothes . |
| 7 | ‘ No ; but the woman said she would show me some pretty dresses , new ones , not — ’ She looked downwards now before she said , ‘ Smelly stuff off the cart . ’ |
| 8 | I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did . |
| 9 | In the days to come she would tell me the story , she would teach me many things . |
| 10 | ‘ Who would send me all these roses ? ’ |
| 11 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 12 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 13 | I can not borrow that amount of money because I 'm already overdrawn and I do n't know anybody who would lend me any . |
| 14 | Who would help me this time ? |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 16 | ‘ Butler , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if you would find me some fresh bandages . |
| 17 | During the damp November evenings when the gas lamp flickered in the wind , nothing would convince me that danger was n't lurking in the eerie shadows . |
| 18 | Morris tonner from Cripps and er I said I 'd buy the lorry off 'em if they 'd find me some work . |
| 19 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 20 | Oh I do n't mind paying you , it 'd cost me that for a bloody taxi . |
| 21 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 22 | I wish he would give me some of that , I 'm flipping starved . |
| 23 | I wish he would give me some too , but I suppose he brought the bread just for the birds . |
| 24 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 25 | ‘ It would give me some sort of starting point . ’ |
| 26 | If we knew what price were at then it would give me more er confidence to know where we stand and how to go about it . |
| 27 | But I do n't think it would do me any harm to develop some more organizational skills because mos most jobs require them . |
| 28 | It would annoy me that . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , it would take me some time to put my hands on that amount of money . |
| 30 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |