Example sentences of "[that] [pron] would [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She wished fervently that they might be allowed to be together , that nothing would happen to make them part .
2 The one thing that I would want to draw your attention to is paragraph three , er , point seven , where you 'll see that the costs of running The Beeches , during the period of , of transition as it were , was five thousand eight hundred and thirty , of which a maximum of three thousand and seventy six may be recovered from the residents .
3 May I just say I went to erm Johnstown yesterday because I had half promised our friends here that I would go to support them .
4 Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice .
5 ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’
6 There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero .
7 I distinctly remember feeling guilty at thinking that I would have to lock my car so these children would n't steal my cameras .
8 After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out .
9 But even if he had given me a direct answer , I do n't know that I would have believed him .
10 I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car .
11 In another tone , she said , ‘ Not that I would have let her . ’
12 You do n't think that I would have left you alone , down here , if I had n't known that you were all well and happy , do you ?
13 ‘ You 're so good at reading my mind that I would have thought you 'd know . ’
14 I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food .
15 I knew in advance that I would have to retrace my steps on this road , to get to the Skye boat at the Kyle of Lochalsh , as there is nowadays only a summer ferry to the island from Glenelg .
16 ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much .
17 It is against this background therefore that I would like to state what I see as the relevance of Christianity to political economy .
18 It 's due to this team spirit and thoughtfulness that I would like to thank everyone .
19 It is midnight and after great difficulty I managed with my little bit of French to convey to my dancing partner of the evening that I would like to see her home .
20 Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often .
21 It really is something that I would like to see us achieve in the future and if this can be brought forward by meeting the developer down there , then I would be , certainly be in favour of that and I would certainly like , and this is what we said at this meeting , to find out a little more detail of exactly what they were offering but we have to be minded all the time , as I said again , is how we 're going to acquire permission to go over one or two different land owners ' lands .
22 We have got a flexibility factor on Tuesday morning , but if I can avoid that I would like to do it , and I 'm sure some some others would as well .
23 That 's the overall and rather special context of this year in , in the year of the youth but every year is an important from the point of view of commodores and clubs and the amount of work that ac goes on on the ground through supporting causes and the effort to recruit membership and it 's in that rather mundane day to day part of R Y A membership that I would like to congratulate you first I think all of you have worked extremely hard and the reports reflect the success achieved and I would particularly highlight the increase in membership , now that obviously has n't been easy and this does require a huge effort of , a consistent effort and it 's not something you can just apply every now and again .
24 ‘ I must confess , ’ Mrs Carson smiled , ‘ that I would like to keep you with us .
25 I said that I would like to influence what was taught in schools but that this was always frowned upon .
26 But you really ‘ should n't have ’ — I know you have so many other things on your mind that I would hate to think I was adding to them .
27 ‘ I 'm not sure that I 'd care to expose myself to the distortions you wreak upon your subject 's features . ’
28 After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people .
29 Not that I 'd wish to encourage you , but if she had children she would n't be so generous to you .
30 I was miserable most of the time , but it would be a towering ingratitude to say that I 'd have done anything else with my life . ’
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