Example sentences of "i would [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In later years , adult years , while sitting in London stuffed with wholemeal digestives soaked in tea , I would be filled with the wheat and candour of this smell , and I would hold the digestive as long as I could in my mouth , as if aiming to grasp its exact ingredient and texture , to become its body and its recipe ) . |
| 2 | If I might be so bold , for one who missed out on so much ( and not just in a cricket sense ) , I would offer a few words of advice . |
| 3 | But it is not in the forces involved that I would locate the main divide in Britten 's operas . |
| 4 | When I was released , I was so relieved that I swore I would lead a normal life — no more endless walks . |
| 5 | ‘ If I had my way , I would burn the entire place to the ground and hang Fitzosbert on a scaffold as high as the sky . |
| 6 | I would capture a fresh wasp that afternoon to use the following morning . |
| 7 | And I decided that next day I would draw an honest sketch of myself , and then one of Blanche Ingram , painting the most lovely face I could imagine , according to Mrs Fairfax 's description . |
| 8 | In terms of constructive policies to deal with the corporate sector , I would emphasise the following . |
| 9 | I surveyed the scene around me and vowed that when I grew up I would marry a rich man who would carry me away from all this noise and squalor . |
| 10 | I would marry a beautiful and capable woman like my mother who would look after my house and my children while I busied myself with more important matters in the wider world . |
| 11 | If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington . |
| 12 | The hours , well sometimes I would do a double shift which was sixteen hours . |
| 13 | I would do no hard training for a month afterwards and not race for about six weeks ’ |
| 14 | Whilst I was in Aachen the Head of Swedish Radio invited me to Stockholm to conduct the new Radio Orchestra and I was asked if I would do the Sixth Symphony , which was quite new then and very little known . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
| 18 | So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary . |
| 19 | With a grunt Toby agreed to arrange things and hoped that I would do the driving and that Jefferson intended to provide some decent champagne . |
| 20 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 21 | It would be the amount of I would anticipate the managed fund . |
| 22 | My father , , who retired from two years ago , asked if I would visit a fellow pensioner — . |
| 23 | To connect these two points , I would stress the obvious point which may be forgotten when one simply looks at the fortunes of particular party organizations . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts . |
| 25 | Instead I warmed up retracing the predawn walk to Cross where I would collect the big rucksack and the last bus to Stornoway . |
| 26 | I would urge a few women of a higher class to resolutely enter upon an apprenticeship for this purpose . " |
| 27 | Mike and I had quickly established a routine : our day would start at 4.30am , when I would cook a massive breakfast to last Mike the whole day . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 30 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |