Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 2 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 3 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 4 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 5 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |