Example sentences of "[conj] i would [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |
| 2 | It seemed to me shocking that they should engage in such a crude , almost obscene activity in public , and I would watch them with fascinated repulsion . |
| 3 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 4 | And I 'd expect them to be here . |
| 5 | I used to find myself walking the landing bladed up and it only needed one word out of place and I 'd turn them into a Tetley Tea Bag and I 'd never get out . |
| 6 | I mean ones you 'd write here and I 'd take them with me . ’ |
| 7 | But I 'd hump them into the sitting room . |
| 8 | Most of my occasional tests of 500 GP bikes end before I would like them to , simply because my arms can no longer resist the braking g-forces and I 'm likely to get flipped off . |
| 9 | By now it had become clear that the way to approach the show would be to do the linking material as near to Joyce 's as I could , but to do the sketches very much more as I would approach them as an actress . |
| 10 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |