Example sentences of "would [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like you better than Gary . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ E 'd tell 'em straight if be'aviour was n't to 'is liking … nah , it 's sad , in n it , that so many 'ave lorst the art 'o being constructively critical withaht being disliked . ’ |
| 3 | He walked with a stick , but sometimes he would throw it away and skip . |
| 4 | Perhaps she would enjoy it more if Lydia stopped whimpering . |
| 5 | He would like it better if Sally was n't there ! |
| 6 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 7 | Then , when he simply smiled in response , she added , ‘ It would serve you right if Jeff walked out on you . |