Example sentences of "would [vb infin] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 2 | But they 'd get to her in the end . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I 'd talk to him about the socio-economic roots of poverty . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
| 5 | Boltzmann showed how the function — was related to the gradient of torque in an experiment on the twisting of a wire ( we would refer to it as a time-dependent shear modulus ) and gave the results of such an experiment . |
| 6 | He would refer to it as the ‘ funny stuff what makes me happy , ’ claiming to live for it . |
| 7 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 8 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |
| 9 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 10 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 11 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 12 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 13 | ‘ Patsy was told by both fortune tellers that something would happen to her before the New Year — that an attempt would be made on her life , ’ he said . |
| 14 | What would happen to it in the future ? |
| 15 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 16 | Not that anyone in the company seriously questioned whether the new outlet would be successful ; they had seen American tourists ( although not necessarily Californians ) on holiday in England ‘ going crazy ’ over the designs and assumed people would flock to them in the States . |
| 17 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 18 | When Waterford Wedgwood Canada 's Gail Lilly volunteered to help out in a major international athletics event , she never dreamed she would find a pen-pal who would write to her from the other side of the world . |
| 19 | I used to dream that , one day , I would come to her with the girl I was going to marry . ’ |
| 20 | And they used to and they if you had er good er breeding stock and that the the neighbours would come to you for a sitting on eggs . |
| 21 | Rory still went occasionally to Mass with her , and sometimes , as a kind of acknowledgement of how different he was from Michael , she would talk to him about the Church , and its importance in their lives . |
| 22 | Paul knew Nathan , as a rule , and would talk to him in a slurred voice ; Nathan had a notebook and pencil ready , and would jot down any thoughts that came , going through them afterwards as if they had been jewels . |
| 23 | He would talk to us in the morning . |
| 24 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 25 | Perhaps now , Isabel would listen to her in a normal manner , help mark the newspaper columns with hotel advertisements . |
| 26 | She would listen to him in the way that no adult woman ever would . |
| 27 | The punk would turn to me with a conspiratorial grin — hey , man , it 's you and me against the world , eh ? — then shift the bus across with his knee . |