Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matron tried to tell him he would need to feed the Bookman properly but the Headmaster did n't seem to care . |
| 2 | Yes , and erm , I 'm very sorry about it , er , because if they 'd breathalysed me I would have failed as well . |
| 3 | Later on , whenever our friends on a visit happened to meet him they would ask : ‘ Is he really a vicar ? ’ |
| 4 | If she agreed to marry him she would offer him what she could — affection , duty , loyalty — and he could decide whether it was enough . |
| 5 | They told their father that if he did marry her they would wash their hands of them . |
| 6 | Coalition , Baldwin told Chamberlain , ‘ must of course be stamped on ’ ; he went on to say ‘ that if R.M. did approach him he would reply that there was no occasion for a Coalition . |
| 7 | If he did ask her she would become costive . |
| 8 | He had told her that if she continued to harass him he would call the police . |
| 9 | As we talked , I felt that if I had pressed him he would have loaned it to me anyway , but the Land Rover was necessary for the research programme and it would have been irresponsible to put John 's work at risk . |
| 10 | Keith said : ‘ If a wave had caught it it would have smashed the craft to pieces . |
| 11 | She had reminded him he would have to speak to a certain young man in the Blue Boar this evening . |
| 12 | She had told him she would try to come , and her non-appearance added to the depression caused by the theme . |
| 13 | ‘ Apparently Ainley had told them he would try to force-land on a beach just after they flew near some naval ships . |
| 14 | And she said , ‘ They said that her mother had told them you would marry . ’ |
| 15 | Benjamin had told me he would return to Le Coq d'Or ; every morning and each evening I went there but no Benjamin . |
| 16 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
| 17 | Camillo had told her she would run away , and come back . |
| 18 | He had told her she would have to be an outlaw because of her heritage . |
| 19 | As they had lain together in the glorious lethargy which followed passion , Vitor had told her he would go for the petrol , but that he would go alone . |
| 20 | He seemed to have meant it when he had told her he would leave her on her own until she was in a more reasonable frame of mind . |
| 21 | The gasman had told us it would blow up and had stuck on a waning sign to remind us . |
| 22 | Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes . |
| 23 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 24 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 25 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 26 | If they wished to bury them they would have to summon Tig . |
| 27 | The two men were at the top of the stairs and almost within grabbing distance , but if either had tried it he would have left his fingers in the frame as the bang echoed through the house and Carson thumbed the deadlock button , just in case they had any ideas about picking their way in . |
| 28 | The government had assured them it would guarantee rank and privileges . |
| 29 | Then , when his owner wanted to catch him she would grab the rope which was trailing on the ground , and take possession of his head before he managed to rear up on her or kick her with his hind legs . |
| 30 | I was however sent an Agenda , on loan and with the very clear proviso that if I wanted to keep it I would have to pay for it . |