Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would soften like a season |
| 2 | There was also the chance that I would recover from the madness . ’ |
| 3 | We would pick up supplies and I would continue with the wheelbarrow from where I had left off . |
| 4 | I would invest in a good protein skimmer and an external power filter packed with activated carbon instead . |
| 5 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 6 | The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building , just outside the city gates . |
| 7 | But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors . |
| 8 | At that moment in time , in that place , with all the women away , I would eat in the family majlis . |
| 9 | After long days and nights alone I would wake in the mornings wondering if this new day would bring a new poem from you , a new smile as you ran dancing towards me on your boxer 's turned-in toes . |
| 10 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |
| 11 | Basil might say , " If a child cries for gold , give it a yellow leaf " — and it is precisely this metaphoric quality that I would emphasise against the purely observational . |
| 12 | In this I would admit to a personal bias toward flexibility and a lateral approach . |
| 13 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 14 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 15 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
| 16 | The immediate rebuff is in conventional and predictable terms : ( " That I would do in no circumstances by our Lord , king of heaven , who is above us . " ) |
| 17 | But the answer to these fundamental questions must follow a review of the law as understood at present , which I would express in the following propositions . |
| 18 | He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ . |
| 19 | A short film would be shown of a man who 'd lost his memory through a cerebral stroke at the age of twenty-three , and was learning to programme his life so he could live alone , and then I would speak about the day-to-day struggle of living with someone who is in no-man 's world without reference and without time . |
| 20 | She asked me if I would speak to the police for her . |
| 21 | See and , and , and normally , and I , I do n't know if , if it 's correct with us , but normally I would , I would speak to the client talk to him , you know , about different things , whatever , go into his business and all sorts |
| 22 | Well I would speak on the way that resolution number one er that 's the report we brought back to the committee about timing and implementation . |
| 23 | ‘ The odds were 7–2 that I would disappear with the money before we even started , even money that I 'd wait until the houses were built and leg it with the money , ’ recalls the London born-and-bred ‘ community builder ’ , with all the relish of a man who beat the bookies . |
| 24 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 25 | I found cranking the boat over on its side did not help to turn it ( in the opposite direction ) as much as I would expect in a sea kayak . |
| 26 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 27 | On the way I would stop at a restaurant and have lunch and then continue , taking my time . |
| 28 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |
| 29 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 30 | When I was small I would creep into a corner . |