Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [subord] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry you had to worry about me because I would n't let you know what was going on in my mind , but I hope now you 'll realise why I kept silent for so long . |
| 2 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 3 | I think life is easier for me than it would be for a lot of working women because of the university creche , which enables me to go to work and sort of see my daughter at lunch time , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 5 | Then , pulling a large white ashtray towards him so it would be within easy reach , he lit a cigarette . |
| 6 | Maybe I 'm being a bit more tolerant towards him than I would be if I had n't met him . |
| 7 | I needed to fly dead into wind approaching the pilot , but keeping him on my right , and I 'd drop the dinghy slightly upwind of him so it would blow downwind to him . |
| 8 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 9 | I 'm sure he knew we were trying to get rid of him because he would n't go ! |
| 10 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 11 | They do n't get much more out of it than they would from reading a James Bond paperback , but it makes them understand a few of the problems the field men face . |
| 12 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 13 | I 'll probably make a better job of it than you would . ’ |
| 14 | This was probably the saving of it as it would most likely have disappeared by now . |
| 15 | Being told in a spiteful , truculent way that you 're not perfect rings louder bells for you than it would for most . |
| 16 | And , ah , oh aye , and she says they 're out playing and the s and she says you know what kids are like Jean , and she says like I would n't try even to say to my kids not to go near them because you would n't tell them because they 're only kids and she says they 're like playing in the square and she says like I would David and down here you know when I was coming down |
| 17 | Not in the employer-employee sense , but as the man who was able to walk on stage , argue with the director and get his own way without having to have Noel Coward behind him before he would reinstate lines that someone else had cut . |
| 18 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 19 | The shadow Health Secretary , Mr Robin Cook , said Labour was fundamentally opposed to the principle of the bill and would vote against it because it would destroy the public sector ethos of the NHS and was designed to do so . |
| 20 | Aha , use th bag we might need to put that behind it if you would n't mind please . |
| 21 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 22 | I had bestowed myself on Nour , and from now on he could do with me as he would . |
| 23 | Charlie got annoyed with me because I would n't let him . |
| 24 | He was old , he told me , and he was feeling his age , and he had played the Lear for five months at the National in London and he was tired , and he wanted to patch things up with me because it would |
| 25 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 26 | And not doing it he or with you because he would n't even let , alright then . |
| 27 | Contributors invested in them as they would in any commercial building company and their philanthropy lay in accepting a return which , at 5 per cent , was lower than they would expect on the free market . |
| 28 | At one point Andy says : ‘ I 'd rather walk down the Falls Road with a Union Jack wrapped round me than I would get out here . ’ |
| 29 | Ana may confide in you as she would never confide in me . |
| 30 | Mr Bruce Napier , a chartered clinical psychologist once in charge of the society 's disciplinary procedures , said : ‘ If you go to see a therapist for an hour a week to talk about your most intimate feelings , it is understandable you may develop more powerful feelings for him than you would for your bank manager or solicitor . ’ |