Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] i would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing I most disliked was the disapproval of the dons because I admitted I would like to write ! ’ |
| 2 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 4 | So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution . |
| 5 | I mean I would do you er have ? |
| 6 | I mean I would make sure I 'm there , cos I 'm disgusted with the pavements in Southwell . |
| 7 | I mean I would have to say that that , that turn by the Chinese Communist Party meant that it was a turn away from the idea that it was the , the ordinary people themselves who , who should shape their own destiny . |
| 8 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 9 | Now my , I mean I would have to say , I mean very clearly , that they 're inseparable . |
| 10 | So I mean I would have thought they 've got ta comply with the same |
| 11 | Well , he need n't , I mean I would have stayed in bed . |
| 12 | I mean I would put that under group work and social skills and no er the way I would approach it but it may not apply . |
| 13 | Now I mean I would hate to use the money we 've got . |
| 14 | And I mean I would like to go offshore again , just to prove to myself whether I could or could not do it . |
| 15 | Yes , I mean I would like to support what Mr is saying . |
| 16 | Yeah that 's , that 's okay it 's just er I mean I would like to feel you would introduce me if they actually knocked on the door and came in this evening otherwise they 'd think would n't you , I mean |
| 17 | I mean I would like to see |
| 18 | Now I would do it slightly differently , I mean I would say that we want you to , we invite you to the next round of our recruitment thing , but there i , er have no decision has yet been taken as to how many if any appointments will actually be made . |
| 19 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 20 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 21 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 22 | British Aluminium own the land , and as soon as I realised I would have to trespass with a car , my imagination started its fevered travail . |
| 23 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 24 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
| 25 | What I want to do wha with the bulldozer I got I would like to poke it that shovel one . |
| 26 | ‘ I was aware of players from both sides running towards me and I shouted I would clear it . |
| 27 | I expect I would have gone anyway ; it was something of an event . ’ |
| 28 | I found I would eat as much of the unrestricted foods as I wanted and I still steadily lost weight . |
| 29 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
| 30 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |