Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] would [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean one would hope you got some wherever you went you know , |
| 2 | I mean I would do you er have ? |
| 3 | ‘ I was aware of players from both sides running towards me and I shouted I would clear it . |
| 4 | How was I to know it would give her a heart attack when it reacted unfavourably with some other medicine she was taking/ I only meant to give her a bit of discomfort . |
| 5 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 6 | The only thing that I noticed which would annoy me if I were a glider pilot was that , engine off , the propeller does have a habit of rotating slightly . |
| 7 | If a virus had begun to affect people who put crosses against Conservative candidates in general elections , I would presumably be arguing that this proved how immoral it was to vote Tory , but I hope nobody would believe me . |
| 8 | If he loses I hope he would accept it with equal good grace and if he wins I will be a good loser and help him out in the general election . ’ |
| 9 | I think there are other two principles though which I hope you would feel we er should respect . |
| 10 | BELVILLE : Because , my dear nun , I hope you would have it so . |
| 11 | If , if people sent them to you I suspect you would receive them quite happily . |
| 12 | I can not go back , I know they would reclaim me . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We are a bit thin on the ground up front but if I stuck the cleaner and laundry lady out there I know they would give me 110 per cent . ’ |
| 14 | We 're not supposed to help each other in a business way , are we ? ’ — he pulled a face at her — ‘ But I know he would welcome me into his band . |
| 15 | I know he would like me to send you his regards . |
| 16 | I know her instructions included the order ‘ Do n't let anybody cry ’ but I know she would forgive me . |
| 17 | It was the last thing I needed to know as I prayed it would miss us . |
| 18 | I will continue with the phototherapy work , as I believe she would want me to . |
| 19 | My life is here , and I have no intention of sharing it with you , not if you offered me an Empire , let alone a castle in Scotland and the fortune of a man whom I despised and who I warned you would treat you badly . |
| 20 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 21 | I suppose you would like me to deliver it to the Goldener Adler . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He [ Lord Rendlesham ] used to have his own coffee — I suppose you would call them plantations would you ? |
| 23 | I suppose you would call us dissidents . |
| 24 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 25 | Well I suppose you would call it a union would n't you . |
| 26 | I suppose you would call it a truss in English . |
| 27 | I suppose you would have me conclude you are my brother 's wife ? |
| 28 | And erm I suppose it would make it would be a lot more logical if all the blinds were just the same price all the time . |
| 29 | I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air . |
| 30 | I suppose I would like it if he was more successful . ’ |