Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But I would always include a 5-wood . |
| 32 | Now I would always peel a carrot |
| 33 | And one final thought — if I ever come across any Crenicichla species ‘ Xingu III they would fit very well into my tank , with the Uaru , and then I would really have a dream come true ! |
| 34 | After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things . |
| 35 | ‘ I do what I can to help and one day I would really like a shop full of Green products . |
| 36 | Another in Sutton , Surrey , said : ‘ I would only want a bunch of wild flowers and the simplest departure possible . |
| 37 | If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless . |
| 38 | I never saw her treat a child harshly or unkindly ; in fact , she would frequently share a joke with us . |
| 39 | She not only bit , kicked , and knocked them down ; but she would also hold a child on the ground by wrapping her jaws around the child 's throat , or bite a child in the face . |
| 40 | Not only was she exultant at the thought of a holiday in London , but she would also have a week removed from the constant worry of Gareth Davis . |
| 41 | She would also find a way to protect her twin — after all , it was n't a crime to run away with the man you loved . |
| 42 | She would probably feel a lot better for having done so too . |
| 43 | When Gloria had got over the first shock of Saul 's horrifying death , she put the warehouse up for sale , together with the contents of the ship-chandlers shop on the ground floor , confident that she would soon find a purchaser . |
| 44 | She did n't like to say that she would sooner lick a toad . |
| 45 | ‘ She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness . ’ |
| 46 | Maybe she would even smell a whiff of perfume . |
| 47 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 48 | With her sophisticated new image , she would certainly cut a dash on board the QE2 . |
| 49 | On the one hand she thought she would possibly enjoy a hour 's gardening when she came home from work and that it would help her unwind , but on the other hand her adult children and her husband would expect tea at 6 p.m . |
| 50 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 51 | She would never marry a man such as Sir Richard Fiennes . |
| 52 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 53 | The daughter , Marjory was small , dark-haired and so bow-legged that to quote my father , ‘ she would never stop a pig in a passage ’ . |
| 54 | She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own . |
| 55 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
| 56 | Perhaps she would never have a child . |
| 57 | She would never have a confrontation but she would get things done her way . |
| 58 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 59 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 60 | You have not yet read the whole novel — and you would normally read a text all the way through before you seriously get down to translating it . |