Example sentences of "would [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she 'd make my uncle a jolly good wife , and it would be a splendid match for her , would n't it ? |
| 2 | When your heart is beating sufficiently fast , the next time you try to pick up Wilma she 'll follow you home ( wish that technique still worked today , it 'd make my life much easier ) . |
| 3 | It 'd make my day . ’ |
| 4 | Thought I 'd make my peace with you before you left . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have a few concerts in the Midlands , and I thought I 'd make my base somewhere close by until they 're over . |
| 6 | That does n't mean I 'd want my dad to read about it in a newspaper . ’ |
| 7 | He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops . |
| 8 | You 'd dock my pay soon enough if I did n't do everything you and Matey ordered me to do in my waking hours . ’ |
| 9 | You 'd know my mum . |
| 10 | I 'd give my life to help you . ’ |
| 11 | Did you really think I 'd break my promise ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ With the peak covering my eyes like this I have to hold my head back to see where I 'm going or I 'd break my neck . ’ |
| 13 | The previous year , when my lifestyle was reversed and I was living with my Mom mid-week , I 'd bring my pal Sally to stay for the week-end at Pop 's . |
| 14 | I 'd repeat my name — and as I got really far from shore I 'd say ‘ Ng ’ or ‘ Adolph ’ — to try to bring me back inside myself . |
| 15 | I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends . |
| 16 | If I were William Styron , the third speaker , I 'd keep my head down . |
| 17 | I used to be frightened to fall asleep at night sometimes , afraid I 'd stick my head out from under the clothes while I was asleep and wake up to find my head in a dragon 's mouth , before I died . ’ |
| 18 | I put , yes only because your dad wanted some yes , I would n't dream of it otherwise , I 'd stick my money in the building society |
| 19 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 20 | They 'd run my life . |
| 21 | And used to happen twice a year and erm sometimes somebody 'd remember my birthday or find that I had my birthday or and at Christmas time we used to get some money . |
| 22 | You 'd like my sister , Rose , Mr. Kopek . |
| 23 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 24 | If you like big bays , you 'd like my boy Oscar . |
| 25 | I 'd like my hair to grow back |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd like my mother to do the same . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 28 | It 's very , it 's very tempting , especially if it 's something that you badly want as happened to me recently when I 'd set my heart on buying a new erm video recorder . |
| 29 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 30 | But it was him , I 'd stake my life on it . ’ |