Example sentences of "i would [verb] the [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 | But it is not in the forces involved that I would locate the main divide in Britten 's operas . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | In terms of constructive policies to deal with the corporate sector , I would emphasise the following . |
| 5 | If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | It would be the amount of I would anticipate the managed fund . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Instead I warmed up retracing the predawn walk to Cross where I would collect the big rucksack and the last bus to Stornoway . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 19 | I would expect the American people would also react very favourably to it . ’ |
| 20 | I would stop the frantic activity and just follow the leads that came my way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No decision has yet been taken on how United Kingdom delegates will be apportioned and I would welcome the hon. Gentleman 's ideas . |
| 23 | To change my metaphor yet again , I would compare the stratigraphical record with music . |
| 24 | No I , I would think the black and the white were one , but mind you it goes a long blinking way do n't it ? |
| 25 | That was about the , I would think the fourth shop from er , sommat like that . |
| 26 | ‘ I would think the British Government must be very worried at this moment , because they have an awful lot to hide . |
| 27 | The majority — I would conjecture the vast majority — of teachers , particularly in secondary schools , are feeling overloaded , pushed around , confused , fed up and unappreciated . |
| 28 | I would meet the beauteous child — pray contrive to present her to me , lady Anne . ’ ’ |
| 29 | I 've gone to see my favourite players play — I 'd see them one night and they 'd be phenomenal and I 'd like the show so much that I would go the next night , drive two hours to see it and it would suuuuck ! and that 's just the way it is . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |