Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 'd like to leave you with one last statement just enough , but just enough , is not enough ! |
2 | And now I 'd like to leave you with this thought " Do you have to make many speeches in the course of your work ? " |
3 | There are times ’ — Rose 's face took on the fierce expression of a schoolgirl talking about her most hated teacher — ‘ when I 'd like to brain her with one of her own golf-clubs ! ’ |
4 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
5 | So I would like to leave you with this suggestion that art , better than a scientifically-constructed computer , is a useful analogy for the brain , and that the more that can be found out about the workings of memory , the more usefully shall we be able to understand the links between them . |
6 | I would like to fill it with herbaceous perennials , which would be suitable ? |
7 | He looked as if he would like to sear her with another acid remark but he remained silent , as she did , apart from a few non-committal remarks , all through dinner . |
8 | ‘ Can I give my Right Honourable Friend two big thank-yous ! ’ , he cried , in a tone suggesting that he would like to accompany them with two big kisses . |
9 | ‘ Most tenants were very happy with their existing range , and their biggest fear was that we would stop supplying them with Bass beers . |
10 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
11 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
12 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
13 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |
14 | He would have passed it with flying colours . |
15 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
16 | English and French smugglers would have provided us with enough of pilots and we had indeed already a few … |
17 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |