Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 2 | ‘ I chose to go to South Africa in 1988 , knowing full well that in so doing I would miss out on England 's tour to Australia and Fiji . |
| 3 | I would stay on in Al Ain , making my own way to London in time for his return . |
| 4 | At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid . |
| 5 | I would sink down into a velvet void so entire and impenetrable that whether it was I or I was it , became moot . |
| 6 | I suspect that my parents simply took my word and my active behaviour as proofs of my essential health , and that my non-eating was something I would grow out of and could therefore be ignored . |
| 7 | The doctor at the hospital told my mother I would grow out of it . |
| 8 | When I first moved here I would wander around for days , not knowing where my home was . |
| 9 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |
| 10 | The suitcases I would check in at the left-luggage office at Paddington station , the bag could come with me to Rome , and Jane could inherit all my bits and bobs . |
| 11 | Every day after school I would rush round to her house to see how he was getting on and take a turn at feeding him . |
| 12 | I would refer back to Sir Peter Hall 's comment on Present Laughter here — for him the failure of that play is in direct proportion to its not being about homosexuals . |
| 13 | ‘ If I kept scoring at my present rate I would end up with 40 goals but you know you 're going to have a lean spell at some time . |
| 14 | Since there was no picture with June 's letter I was not aware that I would end up with the cable I was looking for . |
| 15 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 16 | My first , er , but sad duty is simply to say that Sir Kenneth , our President , had hoped to be here , but he 's had er , an operation and er , he is not really quite well enough , so I was asked as a Vice-President , whether I would stand in for him , at the weekend , and er I shall do my best , and erm , I 'm glad to have to opportunity of doing one or two things , but we 'll come to those in due time . |
| 17 | ‘ You could be right , sister dear , but a man in his position needs a wife , and I would fit in with him in every way . |
| 18 | The same with the signalmen , I would go up to the signalman and tell him , Well on the other shift you know , they would have left that train away first , before they left that other one in you see . |
| 19 | I would go on with that . |
| 20 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 21 | I thought I would go on in that job — hairdressing . |
| 22 | I 'd , I would go through to the pool man and say right , I want so many men for the Rotterdam , I want six men for purpose . |
| 23 | ‘ I would go round to his flat in Clapham when his wife 's parents were there and say : ‘ I 've got the horse shit . |
| 24 | In a sense I was pretty ill , because I would go out at eight o'clock in the evening , having recovered from the appalling hangover caused by my previous night 's activities in Cairo , and re-establish my illness by that night 's activities . ’ |
| 25 | Then I 'd go down the town buy us all clothes then , you and I would go out for a private dinner Jean . |
| 26 | I would go out of my way to crunch on crisp , mustardy jellyfish ; an oily , tissuey-textured sea-slug , slipped into a congee of boiled rice , was my idea of a hearty breakfast ; and the pig , from the brains to the balls ( of the feet ) seemed like a gourmet 's theme-park . |
| 27 | I would go out of the Chamber with my tail between my legs . |
| 28 | I would go out in all weathers , at all times : exercise was an addiction . |
| 29 | ‘ I would go down to the beach around 7am for an hour and would not have used a proper skin care procedure . |
| 30 | I would go along with that . |