Example sentences of "i would [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If I could see the one-eyed god down there now I 'd lean out of the window and tell it everything .
2 He sent me a letter saying how concerned he was and I finally found the courage to go back , but it was quite a while before I 'd open up to him again .
3 internal bleeding , right so the internal bleeding sometimes shows itself externally , for example if I had damage to my lungs or severe damage to the inside of my lungs I 'd cough up blood and that 's in , what do you think ?
4 they wanted to er you know given these guidelines I 'd think right let's , as you were saying , just go for it and
5 I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck !
6 ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’
7 I 'd think perhaps she was killed because she wanted too much … and because she would n't have an abortion . ’
8 I 'd think very carefully about that , if I were you .
9 If it was anyone else I 'd think so too .
10 I never thought I 'd cost so much !
11 Did you imagine I 'd stand passively by while you used me for bayonet practice ? ’
12 I 'd be out in the fields , up to my shins in stinking red granules , and I 'd stand there looking up , easing my aching back , and watching the Gnats fly .
13 And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars .
14 Oh well yes , I 'd carry on Oh mind you , we stocked everything then .
15 So we wish therefore to remove this first constraint on our powers and I 'd emphasise again that it is , is our intention to use , it 's not our intention to use the wider powers to increase the risks , it 's simply to improve er , our ability to gain the best returns and satisfy the objectives of the Council .
16 Back then , I 'd watch Tonight before heading to the West End to play in Roar Like A Dove .
17 Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her .
18 I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies .
19 Then I picked up my things at the stationer 's and walked home , ignoring the distressing tugs of the magnetic field , which made me feel I 'd wasted my morning by not doing the thing I 'd set out to do .
20 I 'd I 'd set off watery moves it must be I 'd set
21 I gave it to Christopher this morning cos I knew I 'd forget tonight .
22 I 'd meet up with the others again on top and we 'd descend together .
23 Occasionally I 'd meet up with others , but not often .
24 but er I 'd meet up in town and our house like twenty past nine , half past , get , get , get the bit of shopping done before the fucking crowds I might off wasted me time , we got in there about ten o'clock , right old day .
25 Every time the gel on the other end tried to bring the conversation to a polite close , I 'd crank up with another round of exasperatingly slow , repetitive , thread-losing , stammering ramblings .
26 Oh I 'd expect so , yes .
27 I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad .
28 I used to think of the moor as all my property , my kingdom , I suppose , and I 'd decide where I was going to build my capital city and where I was going to have my hunting forest .
29 If I want that , there 's ten or twelve in his year I 'd fancy more .
30 For on some mornings I 'd wake up lying , well wrapped in blankets , on the sofa .
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