Example sentences of "[pron] i would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believed her when she assured me I would meet someone much more suitable when it was time for me to get married . ’ |
| 2 | No-one told me I would feel like I did . ’ |
| 3 | Erm for me I would feel that the police having a r a low profile , erm is more beneficial er and I think perhaps maybe , erm the community policemen type of thing , could have been helpful . |
| 4 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
| 5 | He looked at his watch and said , " If it was up to me I would leave in ten minutes . " |
| 6 | But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’ |
| 7 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 8 | Penry has already given me , and only me I would stress , a brief account of your adventure on Gullholm . |
| 9 | If I failed and the French caught me I would hang . |
| 10 | If I won and the French caught me I would hang . |
| 11 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 12 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |
| 13 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 14 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 15 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
| 16 | If he asked me I would turn him down . ’ |
| 17 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |
| 18 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 19 | If John 's moral life came to me I would say : |
| 20 | Me I would imagine would be contacting . |
| 21 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 22 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 23 | Later on , pleading a shortage of space , the reporter told me I would have no chance to answer . |
| 24 | ‘ Still , if it had happened to me I would have been angry . ’ |
| 25 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 26 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 27 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 28 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 29 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 30 | Altogether it lasted a month and but for the neighbours rallying around and taking care of me I would have ended up in hospital . |