Example sentences of "would [vb infin] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |
| 2 | Has it to do with what you said as you 'd tell me one day ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Hardaker was a good friend but he always said he 'd get me one day and eventually he did . ’ |
| 4 | Morris tonner from Cripps and er I said I 'd buy the lorry off 'em if they 'd find me some work . |
| 5 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 6 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | But in that case , I would have the consolation of winning my bet , which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye . |
| 8 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 9 | But I do n't think it would do me any harm to develop some more organizational skills because mos most jobs require them . |
| 10 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing would give me greater pleasure . ’ |
| 12 | Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see Eire not qualify . |
| 13 | I thought ‘ interesting ’ and kept it for pet for about three weeks ; I called it George , and people would give me extra helpings ‘ because you 're eating for two now . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It would give me great pleasure . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I would , gladly , if I knew ; it would appear to be the quickest way of getting rid of you , and that , Mr Whoever-you-are , would give me great pleasure . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He was beastly to me on Saturday night , and it would give me great pleasure to tell him I was right all along . |
| 17 | Item five erm I 'm also pleased to say that er Chris was the only person nominated to be Honorary Treasurer and it would give me great pleasure er to propose that he be elected Honorary Treasurer and may I have a seconder for that proposal please . |
| 18 | ‘ It would give me great pleasure , my dear child . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It would give me great pleasure , too . ’ |
| 20 | He was to be my minder for an initial trial which would give me three laps in one of the school 's Escort XRi 's under his instruction , three laps with him driving and five laps in a single-seat Formula First racing car . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're the only one whose untimely end would give me intense pleasure . |
| 22 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 23 | In fact , I took three — I figured this would give me some insurance — then retired to a new seat to watch the board . |
| 24 | ‘ It would give me some sort of starting point . ’ |
| 25 | So it , would , would give me some aggression then would it ? |
| 26 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 27 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 28 | During the damp November evenings when the gas lamp flickered in the wind , nothing would convince me that danger was n't lurking in the eerie shadows . |
| 29 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 30 | if I went up and down it would cost me eighty pence . |