Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 2 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 4 | I think she would have preferred me to stay . |
| 5 | I suppose if he had been wifeless you would have had me married off to him as soon as I was out of mourning ! ’ |
| 6 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 7 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure he would have wanted me to have anything else . |
| 9 | he would have made me pray ( my thought is broad ) |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman had wanted a detailed comment on it , he would have invited me to look at it before he asked his question . |
| 11 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 12 | I 'm sure he would have asked me to stay on if I had . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 14 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 15 | I but it would have made me jump . |
| 16 | ‘ It would have saved me getting my shorts and T-shirt wet ! ’ |
| 17 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |