Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it happened all the time , I would give up the game — I 'd quit . |
| 2 | I thought that I would scratch out the pictures , but now that the woman has seen them they are not mine any more . |
| 3 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 4 | I never , on the other hand , determined that I would separate out a whole slot for a women 's magazine . |
| 5 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 6 | It is n't much good writing ‘ I would carry out a thorough investigation and get to the bottom of this whole business … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Fenella and I would set out a day later , ’ he said , looking at Fenella and thinking that she was rather a nice sort of companion to be having on a journey . |
| 8 | I recognised my own handwriting and the way I would scrunch up a calendar date before throwing it away . |
| 9 | I would send in a note addressed to Mellowes . |
| 10 | I thought I would bring out the affinity between Elizabethan English and classical Arabic . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So I thought I would come round a little early , in case you needed advice . |
| 12 | erm , so I would come up the town with you if I could think what for |
| 13 | I would trace out the courses of rivers in my school atlas and imagine following them to their sources or to some foreign sea . |
| 14 | I would put up a huge |
| 15 | They thought if I became England manager I would take over the FA — and I would have done ! ’ |
| 16 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 17 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
| 18 | I just kept working harder and harder as I did n't want to let anyone down and I did n't believe I would pick up a drink again . |
| 19 | I would pick up the phone and phone my solicitor and ask to come and see him and get his advice . |
| 20 | The doubles which are now being offered widely are indispensable and I would pick out the deep red ‘ Captain Blood ’ , the white edged purple ‘ Marie Crousse ’ and ‘ Our Pat ’ in bluish-violet as the best growers . |
| 21 | ‘ I would line the men up outside , then I would pick out the youngest and strongest for sweeping and cleaning . |
| 22 | I hope you think that this is important more important to you as it were than it is , is to us because you the clubs and the sailing schools really really must take these sorts of messages on board , not perhaps all of that list there but I would pick out erm that the message that we want to get across to young people , I would pick out the words fun , the words challenging , the words safe , alright . |
| 23 | She thought of all the wretched women in the East End , and aye , in the West End too , not excluding her own maltreated self , and thought that at whatever cost she would carry out the task she had set herself — to find out how the under-privileged lived , and to strike a blow for suffering womanhood while she did so . |
| 24 | Mala chose to go first , saying that she would check out the landing area for dangerous watchers and warn me if necessary when she sent the pod back up . |
| 25 | She would go on the day she judged best . |
| 26 | She had outgrown the collection of grey china kittens now , and the pink lace doilies on her dressing-table , and decided that next time she came out here she would clear out the room . |
| 27 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 28 | The assumption was that she would bring in a number of new people whose loyalty she could count on . |
| 29 | This led to the Little Vestry where she would hang up her coat and to the kitchen where she would wash out the vases and arrange the fresh flowers . |
| 30 | She decided that , should such a horrific eventuality arise , she would cook up a little headache , plead ill health , and dash from the room . |