Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] i would " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean I would like to go offshore again , just to prove to myself whether I could or could not do it . |
| 2 | And I mean I would n't I mean it 's no way , even Sid says I would n't drive all the way up there to see them . |
| 3 | The prospect of that responsibility terrifies me , and I know I would n't be content to sit at home all day with a baby . |
| 4 | we were only thinking about it this morning and I says I would n't mind a break , you know , like , cos , I mean aunty Mary 's always inviting us , and , and we were talking about the cat |
| 5 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 6 | ‘ Not necessarily , ’ she demurred , ‘ but she was kind , and I thought I would like to buy her a wedding present — and because you kindly took me in when you did n't want to , ’ she tacked on softly . |
| 7 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 8 | I had developed an extreme closeness with two of the doctors , and I called them , and they both agreed to go in and evaluate Ron 's condition and get back to me , and I said I would abide by their decision . |
| 9 | Herman gave me some pretty match-boxes , and I said I would put one in Joanna 's Christmas stocking . |
| 10 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 11 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 12 | ‘ We were talking about ransoms too and I said I would pay to save the life — ’ |
| 13 | Yes and I said I would in a minute darling alright ? |
| 14 | I started our first one , and I said I would , normally I I put my hand up , 'cos I wanted to direct . |
| 15 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 16 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 17 | Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again . |
| 18 | I blew lines repeatedly and did a terrible job , and I knew I would n't get the part . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Away , ’ came the enigmatic reply and I knew I would learn nothing more until I arrived . |
| 20 | I wanted to ask Biddy to marry me , and I knew I would be happy with her . |
| 21 | There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives . |
| 22 | I am a self-contained person : neat and elegant : or was until I met Eleanor , who , disgraced , childless , alone , sprawled and wriggled against the shiny black sofa with the big red flowers , and I knew I would rather be her , her life out of control , than me as I was with Lou ; a woman whom an editor could describe as ‘ the mistress of controlled reportage ’ . |
| 23 | And I knew I would get it ba one , one second . |
| 24 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 26 | I think what your question means is , where in the hierarchy of importance would I put my collecting , and I think I would safely put it as one of the most important things in my life , certainly ahead of the army and horses , farmer and publisher . |
| 27 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 28 | I pulled at it , jiggled it , checked the zero twice and I think I would have oiled the scales if I 'd had oil with me . |
| 29 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 30 | And I think I would recommend that , that we support that line . |