Example sentences of "would [vb infin] to [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | He would refer to it as the ‘ funny stuff what makes me happy , ’ claiming to live for it . |
| 5 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | What would happen to it in the future ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I used to dream that , one day , I would come to her with the girl I was going to marry . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He would talk to us in the morning . |
| 17 | She would listen to him in the way that no adult woman ever would . |