Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I would endeavour to push these thoughts away . |
| 2 | As the most experienced grown-up , I had calculated I would hold my edge till the second day . |
| 3 | If , however , I were to consider the more elaborate findings and reasons which they gave subsequently , then again I would hold their findings and their reasons to be unsustainable . |
| 4 | ‘ In the light of the foregoing I would hold that as a matter of law the parental right to determine whether or not their minor child below the age of 16 will have medical treatment terminates if and when the child achieves a sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable him or her to understand fully what is proposed . |
| 5 | ( In later years , adult years , while sitting in London stuffed with wholemeal digestives soaked in tea , I would be filled with the wheat and candour of this smell , and I would hold the digestive as long as I could in my mouth , as if aiming to grasp its exact ingredient and texture , to become its body and its recipe ) . |
| 6 | Sometimes I would hold her lightly by the finger-tips and try to steer the conversation to matters of the heart , but she would blush and her beautiful eyes look down . |
| 7 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 8 | ‘ If I was his manager I would offer Lewis $8m for the fight . |
| 9 | ‘ If I was his manager I would offer Lewis $8m for the fight . |
| 10 | If I might be so bold , for one who missed out on so much ( and not just in a cricket sense ) , I would offer a few words of advice . |
| 11 | In conclusion I would offer a very positive role for residential care — whether integrated or specialist but all I have said emphasises that there is no simple way forward , there are pros and cons for practically every service . |
| 12 | I would offer a contract that allowed him exclusivity if he gets a minimum of 100 candidates in November 1993 and 200 during 1993/94 . |
| 13 | With his Grace 's goodwill , I would offer you a night 's lodging here in the safety of the abbey hospice , and tomorrow you shall have escort to bring your father to the audience . |
| 14 | I would soften like a season |
| 15 | But it is not in the forces involved that I would locate the main divide in Britten 's operas . |
| 16 | I would remark yet a further factor relevant to race and colonialism , one which raises again the always ambiguous status of the aesthetic , and inseparably from its achievements : Gide is in Africa as a writer discovering and nurturing a creativity of itself intrinsically exploitative . |
| 17 | I would ignore the claims of Nottingham Forest 's Nigel Clough and Southampton 's Matthew Le Tissier , but I 'll explain why later . |
| 18 | Had I to do this all over again , I would ignore the coins as quite irrelevant , like the samian in the Margidunum well , and place the date in the second half of the fourth century . |
| 19 | As far as I 'm concerned , I would ignore that er I 'm perfectly prepared to talk to anybody who wants to talk to me and to explain why , certainly in West Oxfordshire , the problems are caused by an over-spending Labour/S L D County Council that accounts for 90% of the . |
| 20 | As a primary intervention , I would aim to direct conversations so that preparation for these changes could be made and some consideration given to the future , whatever that would entail . |
| 21 | There was also the chance that I would recover from the madness . ’ |
| 22 | Back in the main street of Ballinasloe , I had to act fast , or I would miss my train . |
| 23 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 24 | ‘ I chose to go to South Africa in 1988 , knowing full well that in so doing I would miss out on England 's tour to Australia and Fiji . |
| 25 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 26 | But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’ |
| 27 | Parting from Mala would be painful , and I would miss her . |
| 28 | ‘ If I left , I would miss some people . ’ |
| 29 | If I set out to teach , rather than entertain , I would achieve neither . |
| 30 | I decide upon the goal I would achieve . |