Example sentences of "and i [verb] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said club chairman Byron Hughes : ‘ We have not been told anything officially so far and I hope we would be the first to hear . ’ |
| 2 | Er , the , so something must be done quickly , I fear , about the er , management er of er , er the , the new structure and I hope you would agree to it unless anyone else has got , yes ? |
| 3 | When he was enthusiastic about a subject , and I imagined he would turn his back on anything about which he could not enthuse , he leant forward on his bar stool , his thigh beating against it . |
| 4 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 5 | And I mean I would like to go offshore again , just to prove to myself whether I could or could not do it . |
| 6 | And I mean I would n't I mean it 's no way , even Sid says I would n't drive all the way up there to see them . |
| 7 | and I mean I 'd love the Bluecoat but I mean you 've got to be pretty clever for that . |
| 8 | I , I mean it 's only by the good will of the police that we can get down there and that , , this is , this is my concern Mr Chairman , in , in theory what I would like , if there was a serious emergency , you 'd get a senior officer in here straight away , and I mean he would negate to the police , we have no authority over them , only cooperate with the police . |
| 9 | If I went into a club or something , I would notice other people 's clothes , and the label , even though I think it 's silly in a way , and I know they 'd notice mine . |
| 10 | I could have resisted him until we were married , and I know he would have waited , but it was me who did n't want to wait . |
| 11 | The prospect of that responsibility terrifies me , and I know I would n't be content to sit at home all day with a baby . |
| 12 | product , we 've just got one row for one product at the moment but in the future you might want to insert another row and er the product B and then all I would need to do is just copy the formula down and I know it would work cos I made it copyable down as well . |
| 13 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 14 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 15 | And I wish they would n't ask about Mum and Dad and Annie and Mrs Seaton . |
| 16 | I think they mean that I look fat and ugly and I wish they would keep their remarks to themselves . |
| 17 | NME has yet to print anything nasty about Kingmaker , and I wish they 'd hurry up and do something because NME are a completely unchallenging and boring music paper who do nothing to contribute to today 's thing . |
| 18 | Some of the lecturers keep saying in a lecture , ‘ this is somehow related to something else you 've done somewhere else ’ and I wish they 'd tell us how it 's related to something else because half the time we ca n't see that . |
| 19 | I do n't know what to do and I wish I 'd never become involved . |
| 20 | and I wish I 'd remember that fella I 'd had , I 'd tell him off |
| 21 | If you have to go home now , and I wish you would n't , then call me tomorrow and give me a date . |
| 22 | No , she said , I 've been there yesterday , but er I lost a brooch , and I wish you would be on the look out for it . |
| 23 | In fact , looking back , I ca n't think of anyone who ever understood her , except you , and I wish you would come and see her and take her out of herself . |
| 24 | I could n't get Nutty to wear that flowered frock you gave him , he 's dead ignorant and I wish you 'd send the lads to sort him out again . |
| 25 | I 've explained it often enough to you , Frank , and I wish you 'd accept what I say . |
| 26 | ‘ If you do n't mind , Damien , I think that 's my business , and I wish you 'd leave me alone . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't be silly ; you know nothing about my career , pursued or otherwise , and I wish you 'd go away , ’ she added peevishly as she finally managed to drag her eyes from the grey warmth of his . |
| 28 | Well why 'd , I wish you would and I wish you 'd er , they 'd be a , what you needs is a concerted comprehensive effort from everybody be inconvenient as possible until the money stumps up do n't know where the money comes from though |
| 29 | Seeing blocky and uninteresting sprites slowly hacking each other into oblivion does n't thrill me in any big way and I doubt it would excite anyone else . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think he slipped , Mowbray would have been too careful , and I doubt he would have let someone push him off the parapet walk without a struggle . ’ |