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Example sentences of "to [pron] [that] [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were .
2	Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ .
3	He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway .
4	Recently I was in Glasgow playing a show and someone remarked to me that they would like to see something written in my column about sevenths .
5	The district council actually commented to me that they 'd like to see that entrance opened where that er derelict building is at the top end of Church Street car park , which would be an ideal entrance .
6	Did n't you admit to me that you 'd run away to the hills ? ’
7	It had never occurred to me that you 'd object .
8	People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone .
9	The procedures look fine for the purchase of one-off and novel items , but it occurs to me that it would save time and effort if we established ‘ preferred suppliers ’ for standard PCs , printers , and peripherals , so that we do n't have to obtain multiple quotes and give reasons for supplier choice each time we order an off-the-shelf system .
10	‘ People had said to me that I 'd have a lot of spare time on the film set — oh sure !
11	I 've gone to the local Council and er unfortunately they 've said to me that I 'd have to go on a waiting list ; the housing aid have said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast which I 'm sorry to say I do n't think is suitable to bring two children up in .
12	Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for .
13	I found out next morning that his boat was in Halfway House , but when I first saw him I had no idea he was a Moila man , and it did n't occur to me that he would know the mooring there .
14	A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education .
15	Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
16	It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date !
17	Because he was a father and no longer young he confessed to himself that he would prefer the latter .
18	The audience , through the music , were beginning to laugh , and Busacher , sacrificing one of Lehar 's most romantic and loveliest passages of music to the emergency of the moment , speeded up the orchestra , gave the melody a light-hearted rather than a passionate lilt , and swore to himself that he would murder Gesner in the interval .
19	‘ Since you 're a very beautiful woman ; we can immediately rule out the possibility that that no one 's ever been sufficiently attracted to you that they would attempt to storm your female bastions — which leaves another couple of options .
20	‘ Well for one thing , does it sound likely to you that he 'd make up something so complicated ? ’
21	I have n't actually got a , a poem for this , I was saying to you that I would use this , I intend using this as a writing exercise , because the , the colour of her mouth and the colour of the piece of boot in the background , just stands out to me , it says , its about to me hidden desire of some sort , either the artist 's or hers or mine I do n't know
22	Erm , first of all I did promise to you that I 'd give you some idea of the sort of material would be on next week 's erm multiple guess questions , okay ?
23	She did n't really want him , of course but she simply had to prove to herself that he would prefer her to Sally , given the choice .
24	of ten , overnight , especially after a major row with her daughter , Marie 's mother , stricken with guilt , would swear to herself that she would make it up to Marie tomorrow : tomorrow , they would make a fresh start .
25	‘ So this king , ’ wrote Sir Thomas Gray , ‘ led a gay life in jousts and tourneys and entertaining ladies , until the lords who had been disinherited in Scotland for the cause of himself and his predecessors made supplication to him that he would restore to them their inheritances which they had lost on his account and allow them to take their own measures . ’
26	When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’
27	When the bows plunged into the slate black water at the bottom it seemed to her that they would go on diving in , engulfed by the on-rushing sea , never to return to the surface .
28	It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed .
29	The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips .
30	Nervous , perhaps , on edge maybe , because it seemed to her that she would have to keep her wits about her unless she wanted this outing to end up as fruitless as the other times she had been in his company .