Example sentences of "[verb] [that] i would [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up . |
| 2 | But she knew that in the last resort that if he did win that I would do it but he 's he 's paid off now . |
| 3 | Do you think that I would ask you to risk your reputation , if I could think of another way ? ’ |
| 4 | I had said that I would find it easier on my own and she had been hurt , for normal mothers and daughters went together on this expedition , lunching in a department store and discussing the newly acquired contents of the carrier bags that lay at their feet . |
| 5 | You know that I would do it properly for if I had to . |
| 6 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
| 7 | That does not mean that I would discard it as an instrument of statutory interpretation even were I empowered to do so . |
| 8 | I knew that I would take her back eventually , but I wanted to torment her with indifference . |
| 9 | He said he hoped that I would publish it ‘ as I know that people in general do n't understand the long term effects of child sexual abuse ’ . |
| 10 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 11 | All of them would live more happily if they and the world remained in ignorance , and to try to achieve that I would give them the one gift I could . |