Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 2 | I says if I 'd 've wanted a slice of fat and I 'd 've want burnt tomatoes I says I would 've ordered them . |
| 3 | drawing office , I 'd 've got five pound on a suggestion . |
| 4 | I 'd love to see that example of his Collected Works ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'd love to slaughter that child ! |
| 6 | I 'D love to think Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman could whizz down our street delivering the letters on a new Royal Mail mountain bike . |
| 7 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 8 | If er , you 've got guests coming , are you looking forward to it , or are you not , and er I 'd love to hear some horror stories of er past Christmases , when you 've had er perhaps unwelcome guests , or guests who 've overstayed their welcome . |
| 9 | One day , when I can afford it , I 'd love to have two Harris 's hawks — one for hunting and one for demonstration . |
| 10 | Everyone thinks that an English Rose complexion is nice but I 'd love to have olive skin . |
| 11 | The bedroom upstairs is all ready for my brother , and I 'd prefer to have that floor to myself anyway . |
| 12 | Well , if I did , I 'd need to sell old Blazer and buy a shire horse to carry me ! |
| 13 | Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class . |
| 14 | We played very well , but we gave away goals and I 'd hate to see throw-away goals like that on a regular basis . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd hate to practise defensive medicine , ’ commented Meryl . |
| 16 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 17 | If I 'd have took that icing off that cake was as moist as anything , I could have re-marzipanned that |
| 18 | Do n't you see , if I 'd known what she was really planning , I 'd have asked more questions ? |
| 19 | I 'm afraid I 'd have to rewire this guitar in a more commonsense manner , so the toggle switch points towards the set of controls in use ( that 's the key , I think ) , and also so that the volumes sit fore and the tones aft , the way Gibsons and Fenders do . |
| 20 | If I 'd become known as the Man In The Pyjamas , I 'd have to wear those pyjamas for the rest of my life ! |
| 21 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 22 | I was beginning to think I 'd have to drink this coffee . ’ |
| 23 | No I er I said er if I 'd have kept that postcard it there were his address on you see I could have f I could have found him , but no . |
| 24 | I started working out how I 'd have answered that Julius Caesar question . |
| 25 | She said what she said I 'd have to stay all night and all day . |
| 26 | What I was going to tell him , if he was to come over , take my car there when I 'd have taken this car over , I would have had a car to come back . |
| 27 | you know , quite , But I 'd wished I 'd , I wish I 'd have got those photographs to show off . |
| 28 | That 's all I 'd have to eat all day . |
| 29 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 30 | I think perhaps , as I say , I 'd have had some colour . |