Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although I 'd assume a potential audience of mainly women who 'd be interested in this topic , the programme actually distanced that audience by addressing a hypothetical man who 'd think it rather ‘ odd ’ to select women candidates at all . |
| 2 | And , I that one , I 'll tell you what , you know , ooh god , no , yes , yes , leave it at that , I better than I 'd deserve to be . |
| 3 | Well maybe it 's not really right , but , but perhaps that I 'd have thought it would be alright . |
| 4 | The visitor left , forgetting to take her sewing machine , and I left with her , knowing full well that I would never see Aisha again and that news of my forcing the lock on her cupboard would reach my family and the whole village well amplified , so that I 'd end up accused of stealing all of Aisha 's possessions . |
| 5 | I even hoped that damned cat would find his way back so that I 'd have an excuse to ring you . " |
| 6 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 7 | ‘ A tiny fraction deeper and I 'd have been dead , ’ she said . |
| 8 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 9 | Nine o'clock and I 'd have to go to bed ! |
| 10 | Well , much as I 'd love to stay on here , I 'm afraid it is n't going to be feasible . |
| 11 | ‘ Much as I 'd like to think my father was somebody important , there 's no real evidence . |
| 12 | I 'd like confirmation that he 's as crippled as he appears to be , because , much as I 'd like to , I can think of no way in which a man in his apparent condition could have pulled off this murder . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Much as I 'd like to go for a hat trick , my sweet , I have to admit that I 'm not Superman . |
| 14 | That first night was terrible , especially as I 'd become engorged and full of milk . |
| 15 | So when I 'd read them all I thought ‘ I 'll become a professional now ’ ’ . |
| 16 | I realised my elbow was throbbing painfully where I 'd hit the stone floor . |
| 17 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 18 | Not because I have n't had a good run , just that I 'd like the run to continue . |
| 19 | It 's just that I 'd like to be doing more outside work . |
| 20 | I was so purified and uplifted that when I came out and discovered my car had been towed away and I 'd have to fork out 70 quid , I was completely unruffled . |
| 21 | They covered everything they to do that but they just if I 'd have just read that without knowing what had happened you know I |
| 22 | I 'm expecting him shortly and I 'd like you to be present . |
| 23 | I wish I could talk longer because I 'd like to tell you about the lungs , but er , time 's still . |
| 24 | Just as I 'd expect of Maurice 's sister . ’ |
| 25 | She said I was cutting her out just as I 'd cut out other people in my life . |
| 26 | I 'd spend hours cooking meals for Gary , then eat them before he got home so I 'd have to cook more . |
| 27 | Otherwise I 'd have to go home at 5.30 p.m. and I 'd have to start all over again . " |
| 28 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 29 | I 'm not disputing that , I 'm simply saying that perhaps we have a management problem here where we could be doing things differently and I 'd like to hear some positive suggestions from housing officers as to how you can address that . |
| 30 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |