Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 2 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 3 | ‘ And in case you do n't believe me I would n't still have been covered in snow when I came in if I had ’ |
| 4 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |
| 5 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 6 | Later on , pleading a shortage of space , the reporter told me I would have no chance to answer . |
| 7 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |
| 8 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 9 | ‘ Still , if it had happened to me I would have been angry . ’ |
| 10 | Nick said : ‘ When doctors told me I would n't live past Christmas , my only wish was to see my sister get married . |
| 11 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 12 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 13 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 14 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 15 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 16 | If he asked me I would turn him down . ’ |
| 17 | No-one told me I would feel like I did . ’ |
| 18 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 19 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 20 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 21 | Erm for me I would feel that the police having a r a low profile , erm is more beneficial er and I think perhaps maybe , erm the community policemen type of thing , could have been helpful . |
| 22 | If John 's moral life came to me I would say : |
| 23 | But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’ |
| 24 | Altogether it lasted a month and but for the neighbours rallying around and taking care of me I would have ended up in hospital . |
| 25 | He looked at his watch and said , " If it was up to me I would leave in ten minutes . " |
| 26 | Me I would imagine would be contacting . |
| 27 | ‘ But if all the Rime Giants ever spawned were after me I would still sit here , for I need some hot food in me to fight the ice in my bones . ’ |
| 28 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 29 | if you could maybe refer me I would be happy with that . |
| 30 | And certainly after Sam and Anna 's kindness to me I would n't want to seem ungracious . ’ |