Example sentences of "i would [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would soften like a season |
| 2 | There was also the chance that I would recover from the madness . ’ |
| 3 | We would pick up supplies and I would continue with the wheelbarrow from where I had left off . |
| 4 | I would invest in a good protein skimmer and an external power filter packed with activated carbon instead . |
| 5 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 6 | ’ I was thinking only the other day , ’ he went on , ’ that if I did n't have a wife and child to support I would throw in my resignation , take the voluntary redundancy on offer , sell the flat and go . |
| 7 | If , let us suppose , you were driving south from Mâcon or Bourg-en-Bresse ( I would stay chez La Mere Blanc at Vonnas ) you could drive through La-Tour-du-Pin , Saint-Rambert d'Albon , Beaurepaire d'Isère , Beaumont-les-Valence , La Garde-Adhémar , St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux — the three castles which gave their name to the Tricastin district — then down to Suze-La-Rousse and the tiny village of Donzère and its great nearby dam which is as wondrous and absorbing a spectacle in its way as any of the great Roman glories of this province through which , they claim , Hannibal marched with his Carthaginians — and presumably his elephants — two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ After that race , ’ he says , ‘ I met Alec Harvey-Bailey by the side of the road near Silverstone and told him I would stay with BRM . |
| 9 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 10 | I would stay with him and rear them . ’ |
| 11 | Now Mr Jaggers turned to me and told me that on Monday I would go to Matthew Pocket 's house to start my studies , but until then I would stay with his son , Herbert , who lived nearby . |
| 12 | When I first came home I thought I would stay with my mother as long as she needed me , then I would go back . |
| 13 | Friends were surprised at how often I would stay on their floors after an evening out , and I would alternate between trips to my parents ' house in Wales and visits to friends from pre-army days , who I would surprise by telephoning to say I was on leave from the regular army . |
| 14 | The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building , just outside the city gates . |
| 15 | If I only got a second , I would stay in Oxford . |
| 16 | But that 's precisely the problem because erm the definition which I would give to it is necessarily a definition which would preclude er regarding Mao 's party as a Marxist party but then other people would say that my definition was er itself controversial . |
| 17 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 18 | Yes I would care for when I had to do something , rather than just go straight into that , good |
| 19 | I would laugh at myself because sometimes I would pull it off and other times I 'd go to reach over real fast and I 'd just go ‘ Aaaaaargh . ’ |
| 20 | But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors . |
| 21 | If I failed to do so , he would become exasperated and start shouting at me , telling me how stupid I was ; whereupon I would dissolve into tears and rush out of the room . |
| 22 | I would decide on two grounds in favour of the tenant 's contention that there was , in this case , a breach of covenant for quiet enjoyment . |
| 23 | At that moment in time , in that place , with all the women away , I would eat in the family majlis . |
| 24 | At the back of my mind was the feeling that I would bump into you in the street . |
| 25 | After long days and nights alone I would wake in the mornings wondering if this new day would bring a new poem from you , a new smile as you ran dancing towards me on your boxer 's turned-in toes . |
| 26 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |
| 27 | Basil might say , " If a child cries for gold , give it a yellow leaf " — and it is precisely this metaphoric quality that I would emphasise against the purely observational . |
| 28 | In this I would admit to a personal bias toward flexibility and a lateral approach . |
| 29 | ‘ As a small library authority covering a very large geographical area , I would arrange for formal internal training programmes to be held for all staff ’ … |
| 30 | If this proposition were to be of interest I would arrange for you to be put in contact with my client , who will reveal his identity at the appropriate stage . |