Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd have despised myself . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd know what you were , I 'd have killed myself in the Lubianka . ’ |
| 4 | And I 'd have shot myself if we lost because I 'd wasted a good chance just before the goal . ’ |
| 5 | Lou seemed to think she 'd have dolled herself up a bit before he came . |
| 6 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
| 7 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 8 | ‘ If Dobson had been any more seriously injured you 'd have found yourself in a cell by now . ’ |
| 9 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 10 | If he 'd have taken his time and he 'd have got himself some more work yeah ? |
| 11 | If you 'd left well alone and not tried to see the child you 'd 'ave saved yerself a lot of heartache . |
| 12 | No member of the races of the True People would have involved himself in a plan which necessitated the transportation of a mutant into Kinsai . |
| 13 | While it appears that both James and Williams agreed that without an ascendant industrial bourgeoisie , the abolitionists ‘ would have preached themselves as black in the face as any Negro ’ . |
| 14 | Yet it 's bad , must be , or she would have phoned herself . |
| 15 | If I 'd not had Louisa I do n't suppose I would have pushed myself when I had the job interview . |
| 16 | She would have gone herself , but her leg was stiff and sore again and she was n't sure she would have been able to manage the stairs . |
| 17 | I would have killed myself . |
| 18 | She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht . |
| 19 | She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway . |
| 20 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 21 | Had the Social Democrats won in East Germany , Mr Gorbachev would have gained himself a valuable ally . |
| 22 | This was an entirely novel perspective : although chosen to represent the public , few of the Great and Good would have declared themselves spiritually one of them . |
| 23 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 24 | I doubt whether a judge , either of the High Court or of the county court , would have regarded himself as qualified to make an assessment of so substantial a claim . |
| 25 | No doubt the right hon. Member for Yeovil , ( Mr. Ashdown ) would have regarded himself as semi-detached . |
| 26 | But he was , a he would have said himself , a very pleasant chap . |
| 27 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 28 | Should she permit Finn to speak insultingly of the duck then she would have rendered herself vulnerable ; for all traitors are peculiarly at risk — both from within and without . |
| 29 | But of course , by then the garrison would have blown itself up . |
| 30 | By morning perhaps the storm would have blown itself out , and the fog in her mind along with it . |