Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd drink of a cup of cold piss at this moment in time , Tony , if it blotted out the world . |
| 2 | It 's the last thing I 'd expect of Oliver . |
| 3 | Just as I 'd expect of Maurice 's sister . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you think I 'd dream of sharing so much as a blanket with you after that you 're crazy ! ’ |
| 5 | I said I 'd bottle of wine off my dad just for us three , that 's just for us three . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd die of boredom instead . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to think I 'd die of cholera on the spot . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd die of a heart attack . |
| 9 | REGARDING the wolf whistling debate , should I ever receive such a gesture I think I 'd die of shock , But should some young , dishy male give me a whistle I would probably give a wink and a whistle back . |
| 10 | Now only three or four years later I 'd say of yeah we 're go to somewhere a bit quieter , so that kids can go to bed of a night time , we could have a apartment . |
| 11 | I 'd read of automatic writing so in my grief I tried it , spending many hours holding a felt-tip pen over paper . |
| 12 | Towards the end of our conversation he asked me what use I would make of documented evidence that the Japs in Burma had a far-reaching plan to destroy the Buddhist system of monasteries and monks . |
| 13 | I think that one of the outstanding erm criticisms that I would make of the whole programme , in research with animals , is the fact that only two licences have been revoked I think you said |
| 14 | ‘ Were I transported to Italian Plains , and lay by the side of a streamlet that murmured thro' an Orange-Grove , I would think of thee … ’ |
| 15 | And often I would think of Rendlesham Hall . |
| 16 | I would think of ‘ tiger ’ or what not , that it might mean , and this thing has no trans … has no relation to , to , to , to , to , the , the , the sounds that I was looking … ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes I would think of people who wrote letters to themselves in an attempt to feel a little less lonely , a little less unfrequented and forgotten . |
| 18 | A combination of I would think of about twelve passes but tha they switched the play from side to side |
| 19 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 20 | I would think of it as er |
| 21 | If anybody ever says woman to me , like " You should have seen that woman , " or , " Now there was a woman for you , " I would think of Audra Favor , thinking of her as Audra , too , not as Mrs. Favor the Indian Agent 's wife . |
| 22 | It 's not the image I would think of . |
| 23 | I would think of erm having er pearl necklace . |
| 24 | And I think , I mean the kind of situations I would think of as in that would be , just to take it from my own experience , of children who become quite experienced . |
| 25 | You do n't imagine I would dream of keeping what does not belong to me ? ’ |
| 26 | I could do that to order ; that would n't be something I would dream of publishing . |
| 27 | I do n't remember ever being afraid , and I would boast of my nocturnal activities to a few close friends , who were duly impressed . |
| 28 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 29 | " He 's obviously gone some place he knows I would disapprove of — which probably means something involving the Irish sympathizers … " |
| 30 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |