Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] would [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Whatever it cost I would face it . " |
| 2 | ‘ I was aware of players from both sides running towards me and I shouted I would clear it . |
| 3 | If he moved they would see him ; if he stayed still they would find him . |
| 4 | And next year 's student , or even next term 's , perhaps , depending on how quick you do it , your conversations , what you 're doing now , once they 're transcribed and put onto disk would be very interesting , because we 'll have a disk from our St Mary 's students , transcribed , because Steve promised he would get them all transcribed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nigel believed she would assume he had something incurable with a shade of film glamour to it — leukaemia , perhaps . |
| 7 | When Nora came she would get her to run up to the flat and root out that paste thing she 'd once bought on a whim at Selfridges . |
| 8 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 9 | ‘ When Mrs Howard asked for an escort , I naturally assumed we would assign her one of our own people . |
| 10 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 11 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 12 | For a moment it seemed he would hit him , then the violence passed from his face and his arms relaxed . |
| 13 | Marc was saying , ‘ When I gave you that place on your twenty-first birthday , Peter , I foolishly imagined it would help you settle down as you seemed to have no idea what you wanted to do with your life . |
| 14 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 15 | Although she bet she would like him . |
| 16 | In winter when she entertained she would send him outside to chop more wood for their open fire . |
| 17 | When he looked away , she realised she would lose him for ever . |
| 18 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 19 | She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow . |
| 20 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 21 | 75% stated they would recommend it to be available from general practitioners surgeries . |
| 22 | ‘ When my mother left him the topaz , Vitor vowed he would save it until he met his soulmate , ’ the older woman explained . |
| 23 | He reckoned it would make you more … susceptible . ’ |
| 24 | And she would provide a substitute for the two weeks she reckoned it would take her , an English maid called Phoebe Crabbe with whom she had become friendly . |
| 25 | Plain or not , Fabia reckoned it would take her a fortnight to learn to say it . |
| 26 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 27 | Isabel needed his protection as far as Winchester , and if he did n't have those answers before they arrived he would keep her under restraint until he unlocked every secret she possessed . |
| 28 | As they arrived he would take them up to her in bed . |
| 29 | Ronni sensed nothing would shock him . |
| 30 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |