Example sentences of "[pron] would [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would back myself to score 20 goals this season if I were to have three chances in every game , but those opportunities do not come so easy for me in Italy . |
| 2 | I would lull myself to forgetfulness |
| 3 | Yeah I would class myself as a recovered anorexic , but as recovered as I 'll ever be ! |
| 4 | This is not to say that the ‘ generalists ’ ( with whom I would number myself ) are sceptical of scholarly writing and research . |
| 5 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 6 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
| 7 | Thanks to Emma 's years of extreme beneficence , Rachaela had managed to save a little , and now there was some interest which would tide her over , perhaps until the new year . |
| 8 | He knew that when the circle was spinning fast enough against the standing magical field of the discworld itself in its slow turning , the resulting astral friction would build up a vast potential difference which would earth itself by a vast discharge of the Elemental Magical Force . |
| 9 | He was going to kiss her , she thought wildly , he was going to bend her back over his arm and put his mouth to her throat , and she — she would close her eyes , she would arch her body to his … |
| 10 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |
| 11 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 12 | They entered the house at lightning speed , with Robyn only too aware of the expensive hallway , the elegant furnishings , convinced that at any moment she would disgrace herself ; to vomit now , before she reached a bathroom , would be the final humiliation . |
| 13 | She would only bewilder him quite as much as she would distress him . |
| 14 | I am certain that your wife is not the only one who would prof it from its wider deployment . |
| 15 | Now charities , we would group them together as N G Os they 're often called , non- governmental organizations . |
| 16 | Vicky or I , as a singing nun perhaps , would skip forward to chant : ‘ Oh , but I am mother prioress/And they would wall me up ! /Sir , have mercy , sir , have mercy … ’ |
| 17 | They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them . |
| 18 | We just wish they would double-park their caravans on some other Manhattan street . |
| 19 | They told her that if she did they would outcast her . |
| 20 | The knowledge she had of him would armour her against belief . |
| 21 | He would deck himself out in the kind of clothes that would give most offence to her were she alive . |
| 22 | She was not particularly eager to share the information with Leif — though doubtless he would bombard her with searching questions , as he had done before — but she had made Vitor think that the two of them were close . |
| 23 | But little by little he would piece it all together . |
| 24 | If only he would discipline himself to regular medication and give up smoking … ’ |
| 25 | He would closet himself with a bottle of port and a cigar or pipe , read the end of the previous instalment , and then write the next , drawing his fee when he handed over the text . |
| 26 | He would rubbish it . ’ |
| 27 | He would hand it to the Colonel : given the motivation they could , by God , do things right . |
| 28 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |
| 29 | It would clog it up . |
| 30 | What would distress me would be if Scotland were not able in such a process to express democratically her own voice and her own vision of the European future and of the future of Scotland in Europe . |