Example sentences of "[subord] i would [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 2 | I remember getting off the plane and being asked by the press photographers if I would give them a salute . |
| 3 | As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup . |
| 4 | But he asked me if I 'd send them er er a full report of it after day after they 'd done it . |
| 5 | So I thought well there 's not much point in me having them , cos I would wear them |
| 6 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Wales have made enormous strides , but I would like to see them being more creative before I would say they are a real force again . ’ |
| 9 | So when I 'd read them all I thought ‘ I 'll become a professional now ’ ’ . |
| 10 | Little children need to starve no more as I would give them a big food store . |
| 11 | They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |