Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was aware of players from both sides running towards me and I shouted I would clear it . |
| 2 | The only thing that I noticed which would annoy me if I were a glider pilot was that , engine off , the propeller does have a habit of rotating slightly . |
| 3 | When he was enthusiastic about a subject , and I imagined he would turn his back on anything about which he could not enthuse , he leant forward on his bar stool , his thigh beating against it . |
| 4 | I reckoned it would take her three or four minutes to get back to her flat , but maybe it was n't a good idea to hang around the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | It was the last thing I needed to know as I prayed it would miss us . |
| 6 | I sensed I would hear his story eventually . |
| 7 | My life is here , and I have no intention of sharing it with you , not if you offered me an Empire , let alone a castle in Scotland and the fortune of a man whom I despised and who I warned you would treat you badly . |
| 8 | I felt he would protect me from Mrs Reed . |
| 9 | I felt it would bind us together . |
| 10 | ‘ I know it sounds awful but I felt she would criticise what I did and how I looked or try to organise me . |
| 11 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 12 | Knowing both of them , I knew they would hit it off when they got to know one another better . |
| 13 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
| 14 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 15 | She reddened , said : ‘ I knew you would think I had taken too much responsibility on myself . ’ |
| 16 | So I knew you would eat it like that in an omelette . |
| 17 | Ben said , ‘ I knew you would keep her . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I knew you would read it sooner or later . |
| 19 | I knew I would want him to be coming home to me . |
| 20 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 21 | But whatever happened I knew I would fail them . |
| 22 | ‘ Away , ’ came the enigmatic reply and I knew I would learn nothing more until I arrived . |
| 23 | I knew I would call you up |
| 24 | And I knew I would get it ba one , one second . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew it would please you . |
| 26 | I knew it would kill me , but in the end I did n't want to die . |
| 27 | The hand started pushing through the window at the pile of books , and I knew it would find me and catch hold of me again . |
| 28 | I knew it would keep you out of the way at a time when you might be spreading your theory about the Durances . ’ |
| 29 | When the time came , I knew he would take me to the asteroids , and we could serve the community together . |
| 30 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |