Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | And then she 'd type them on this special machine that had indelible ink in it . |
2 | I said I 'd bring it in this week . |
3 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Charles was saying , after more than an hour of beleaguered explanation , or semi-explanation , ‘ I did n't think you 'd take it like this , old thing , I thought you 'd — well , I thought you 'd be relieved , to tell you the truth . |
4 | Well I phoned them and said , I thought I 'd leave it till this morning . |
5 | So I thought I 'd tell you about this bit of niceness — and no , there 's not a free Bettencourt signature model in it for me . |
6 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
7 | The Princess had spotlights , he 'd turn them around this way when it was time to get Sandy to the door and then he 'd go back on his own to switch them off . |
8 | ‘ That 's a good shot you got there , but , you know , on the next one , I 'd shoot it like this … |
9 | or he 'd reacquaint me with this morning 's breakfast . |
10 | He 'd kill them for this . |
11 | He had n't admitted this for fear it would disqualify him from this part of the mission , and anyway he had thought he would feel safe behind the comforting protection of a pump-action . |
12 | By depreciating against the other currencies as needed , the scavenger currency would insulate them from this local depression . |
13 | He would catch her like this , she thought disgustedly , old jeans , old sweater , dirty hands — and face , a quick glance in the mirror told her . |
14 | Worse , nothing in the data itself would alert us to this fact . |
15 | She still doubted whether Roirbak would betray her in this way , but perhaps Lennon was right and Quincx had been duped by Malamute . |
16 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
17 | DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her . |
18 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
19 | She was to find out that something would startle her like this and then quieten down to an apparent normality , only to find that she had really been shaken up into accepting an entirely unnatural situation and adapting it to the flow of her life . |
20 | A trip to Tory Wandsworth would cure him of this delusion . |
21 | Well they would move them round this fella himself , but it 's gon na be a hell of a lot of money to get them to do that . |
22 | There was a good ice slope leading up to rime of rocks that would take us to this secondary top . |
23 | One of these fine days , when he 's my uncle , I would thank him for this . |
24 | No sin would reach her in this house . |
25 | Since paraprofessional social welfare personnel are an important resource for meeting people 's needs , one would assume that policy makers , social service administrators and professional social workers would view them in this light and would do what they could to support and develop this valuable resource . |
26 | She ached , she burned , and it was Julius doing this to her ; only Julius who could bring the relief and pleasure that would release her from this intense need . |
27 | Lastly , looking at the quality and depth of squads in terms of individual players , I would rate them in this order . |
28 | ‘ If I could summon up all the authority of this office [ Prime Minister ] I would put it into this single warning — the UK is in danger . |
29 | Or maybe Norris and his pals would distract her from this crazed idea of getting air-locked drunk by suggesting a friendly game of cards . |
30 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |