Example sentences of "me would " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 3 | Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that . |
| 4 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 5 | ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But I ca n't imagine that your plan for me would enhance Bo-Bo 's pleasure . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A poor cripple like me would n't stand a chance against a big lump like you — especially when you got the boss 's daughter on your side … |
| 8 | The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’ |
| 9 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , if so 's you 're to do wi' Brownies an' you could bring yum back to t' dale , ma'am , folk like me would be much obliged , ’ said Aunt Nellie . |
| 11 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 12 | Mr. Golding usually had a smile and when he saw me would say , ‘ Goin' to help me today , then Arthur ? ’ |
| 13 | But Gentlemen for your deliberations to be useful they must be free — your opinions must not be shackled by authorities ; & I know that were I present your candor and delicacy towards me would be such , as to prevent that freedom of discussion and investigation , which is absolutely necessary to obtain a knowledge of facts . |
| 14 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 15 | Yesterday 's me would have gone outside the phone box and stood listening to it ring . |
| 16 | Any response from me would have resulted in my being kissed on the forehead and my hair tousled ( and no boy is happy in being so treated , especially by a brother ) . |
| 17 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 18 | Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself . |
| 19 | Part of me would love to be in a relationship , but I 'm cautious about getting involved , even though I desperately want to be loved . |
| 20 | You and me would be a team , Stan . |
| 21 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 22 | Do you know that there 's men running clubs up there who would murder somebody like you or me would have a cup of tea ? |
| 23 | My task was to record it as objectively as possible and leave the reader to judge , yet not to provide some indication of the effect it had on me would be to paint a very incomplete picture . |
| 24 | If so , an ethical statement made by me would be true , and could not reasonably be challenged by others , if I have the feelings in question . |
| 25 | What he means is that the light is dreadful and only desperate hacks like me would take photos in it . |
| 26 | A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me . |
| 27 | Every weekend that they came to visit me would end in tears , and I was fourteen before I could manage without them , and before I stopped kissing my father goodnight . |
| 28 | I wonder how many other senior citizens like me would welcome the return of shops selling tripe and onions , faggots and peas and pock hocks ( ready cooked — lovely grub ! ) |
| 29 | " If you 're asking me would they steal for it , well then I do n't know . |
| 30 | " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - " |