Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] would [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , if I had the time and money I would pre-bait every morning and evening . |
| 2 | But to a passing journalist he would free-associate in a way which would have held Freud entranced . |
| 3 | I can honestly say he 's the sort of bloke I would sort of try not to get lumbered with at a party or somewhere like that I mean I do n't mind I did n't mind talking to her but I find her |
| 4 | After a light lunch we would siesta in our bedroom , and not emerge until sunset . |
| 5 | They entered the house at lightning speed , with Robyn only too aware of the expensive hallway , the elegant furnishings , convinced that at any moment she would disgrace herself ; to vomit now , before she reached a bathroom , would be the final humiliation . |
| 6 | Any moment it would buck , toss her , white broken heap , on to the gleaming floor . |
| 7 | As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes . |
| 8 | In which case he would surface again when it suited him . |
| 9 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 10 | If they discovered evidence of share dealing ahead of the takeover by individuals using confidential information they would institute more formal inquiries . |
| 11 | And Colt , after long days of torture , had recognised in the Colonel someone he could like , someone whose trust he would value . |