Example sentences of "[adv] i 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd point to phrases like , ‘ I ca n't see anything ’ or ‘ Has the sun come up ? ’ and they 'd look bewildered at me and point and on I 'd go . |
| 2 | Come on I 'd like to see a few more hands up here . |
| 3 | But going on I 'd like to pick the point made er from the Department of Environment about the exceptions policy and the way they envisage it . |
| 4 | Somewhere I 'd read that a card was an invaluable social lubricant in South America . |
| 5 | There 's a advertisement er for example in a recent issue of the Guardian , if my er Dutch was erm a little better I 'd quote it into the record but erm I 'm afraid it 's , it does n't make very much sense to me at the moment . |
| 6 | If I did n't know better I 'd think there was a man on the horizon . ’ |
| 7 | If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job . |
| 8 | But lastly I 'd like to come to the word community , about which I feel so strongly . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't , ’ Penny Mansfield warns , ‘ sink into the double bind of , ‘ If I were good ( or sexy or clever ) enough , he would n't have done it … and if I were strong enough I 'd leave him . ’ |
| 10 | If I was rich enough I 'd give you . |
| 11 | Cos only I 'd stop because of you . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , Robyn , ’ he whispered huskily , ‘ if only I 'd know what you were going through . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , if only I 'd let well alone ! ’ |
| 14 | If I still was going down I 'd do it like that |
| 15 | Oh if you 'd shouted down I 'd 've g come with you . |
| 16 | I knew as soon as I wrote it down I 'd go off the boil . |
| 17 | had let me down I 'd have gone over everyone 's head and rung Matron 's flat . |
| 18 | She knew he was thinking : If I had not put so much of myself into this house , perhaps I 'd leave . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd feel better in the garden . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps I 'd come down here before the … whatever … |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd surprise myself , ’ he said at last , ‘ if I met your friend . ’ |
| 22 | We 're absolutely delighted that you 're here in Portsmouth for your congress and it 's very very important to us and I think perhaps I 'd take a little bit of time to explain why it 's important . |
| 23 | I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , yes , I thought perhaps I 'd try to intercept Erdle on his way back . |
| 25 | See perhaps I 'd like to more section to . |
| 26 | Truthfully , of course ; I 'd see how it sounded , and if it were too reprehensible , well , I 'd just have to think up a good lie , that was all , right now at the outset , and stick to it until perhaps I 'd begin to believe it myself . |
| 27 | If he 'd clutched at me , perhaps I 'd have stopped . |
| 28 | ‘ In fact , if I 'd known the effect my arrival was going to have , perhaps I 'd have stayed away . |
| 29 | Had I applied earlier … but then perhaps I 'd have stood very little chance , but at least I 'd have had interviews . |
| 30 | I mean obviously I 'd like to sell it all at price levels but there 's get away with that . |