Example sentences of "[pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to be an ACET volunteer so what do I do now ? |
| 2 | Without the help of ACET and other direct service organisations and charities , I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 3 | Without the help of ACET and other similar organisations I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 4 | Yes , I would like to make ACET 's Home Care service and Education Programmes more widely available and enclose a donation of : |
| 5 | ‘ I would like to thank you and your Team for all the effort and resources you have put into providing a home care service for our patients . |
| 6 | ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year . |
| 7 | I have seen for myself the value of ACET 's work in the community and I would whole heartedly recommend other churches get behind the work in any way they can . ’ |
| 8 | But without the help of ACET and other voluntary organisations I would not have been able to maintain my independence . ’ |
| 9 | After two hours Ii managed to get David to sign the papers knowing full well that , after over 12 years of living in those conditions , I would probably want to die myself . |
| 10 | I am thirteen years old , and if ten years of my youth were taken over by four plain walls and nothing to do , I know how I would feel . |
| 11 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 12 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 13 | And when he had left off playing I would go and sit by him , and a little later we would all lead the good old man to his cottage . |
| 14 | ’ . Ilse had been trained in an orphanage , and he then tells her , with a smile : ‘ I would n't claim any privilege that an orphan was n't entitled to . ’ |
| 15 | One day I would write it — and them — off the face of the earth … ’ . |
| 16 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 17 | I would like to say a last word about Amis 's voices , and about the long words which have been or might be laid on his confident art — a terminology for which he is unlikely to be grateful . |
| 18 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 19 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 20 | The measure expresses a mean between saving and lashing-out , and it has remained a feature of my own Scots-Irish domestic economy which I would bet is widespread in northern parts . |
| 21 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 22 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 23 | It 's pretty lightweight , most of it and what is n't lightweight is salacious , so I would n't think you 'd find much to stimulate you there , but you could try . |
| 24 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 25 | I be lucky I get any bloke fer more'n two monfs togewer like my ol' lady I suppose an' if I get a bloke 'e 'll be aht a' work or 'e 'll set me ter the bleed'n game like 'er I would n't be surprised but if you reely want ter now jus ' fer now for this minute I wanner enjoy it . |
| 26 | I knew I would n't play her as a wimp and the whole audition was based on the speech where she goes mad — the flowers , rosemary for remembrance and the whole bit . |
| 27 | I would say always remember that what is on show is oneself , not necessarily the ability to perform brilliant characterisations . |
| 28 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 29 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 30 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |