Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | In the early 1960s Dr Beeching , the chairman of the railways , had cut out some of the most unprofitable rail lines and the fear was that I would do the same . |
2 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
3 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
4 | If I had the opportunity , which I have not had , to go round the rest of Scotland , perhaps I would form the same view of the rest . |
5 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
6 | If I was not a priest and if I was in your position , I imagine I would feel the same . |
7 | ‘ I would feel the same sense of pride and commitment as the other guys if I was to run out at Murrayfield with a Scottish shirt on . |
8 | Even if I try getting out of bed on the other side tomorrow morning , I am sure I would feel the same way . |
9 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
10 | I would find the same difficulty in putting down words for a dragonfly above a summer pond or a new spider 's web hung with dew on a spring hedgerow . |
11 | I would like the same amount of performance as from the petrol engine therefore I do not really want a Land Rover Diesel . |
12 | Nigel used to say , ‘ If you can read , you can cook , ’ and I would say the same of gardening . |
13 | I would say the same of a case in which a child of any age consented to donate an organ : such a case is not , of course , covered by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 on any view of the matter . |
14 | I told him I would take the same again . |
15 | If Catherine wanted something , I would give it to her , and she would do the same for me . |
16 | It annoyed her to think he had imagined she would do the same . |
17 | He would thrash ; and she would make the same wound and stitch it . |
18 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
19 | Perhaps she would feel the same when she reached his age . |
20 | be , she would get the same amount paid per week or you can have the increasing one where it would increase erm in line with inflation . |
21 | How could she when she knew she would use the same words to justify her actions ? |
22 | Before , he would splatter , and she would take the same pigment , the same colours , and assemble . |
23 | Then you would take the same rag and wipe that off and then the piece of cleaner cloth , bit more turps , clean the desk . |
24 | With Mr Boyd ministering , and Lady Errol attending to her children , Boswell and Johnson passed the time — it will have been close to , or even after , seven o'clock by now — chatting quietly , admiring the sea view , inspecting the pictures , including a portrait of Lord Errol by their ‘ amiable and elegant friend ’ , of whom Johnson observed , concluding some complimentary remarks , ‘ Sir Joshua Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel , you would find the most difficulty how to abuse . ’ |
25 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
26 | We would give the same construction to the comparable provisions in the other mortgage deeds . |
27 | Formally , we would have the same force if we assumed ( as many textbooks do ) that a magnetic field moving with a velocity in gives rise to a force |
28 | She hoped they would make the same allowances for her . |
29 | Hence , Figs. 22.3 and 22.4 would look identical if they had been taken earlier or later , but the other pictures would not — they would give the same overall impression , but details would be different . |
30 | They would do the same in similar circumstances . |