Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | My face is round and a bit chubby and I want someone to tell me which styles would suit me . |
| 2 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 3 | ‘ I work in sales and am sure none of my clients would take me seriously if I did n't turn up in a sharp suit . |
| 4 | Seven lifts would keep me amused for about two hours . |
| 5 | A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it . |
| 6 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 7 | ‘ And that actually created some problems for me , because guitarists would call me from the States or Britain and say , ‘ I want the sound that George Lynch gets on ‘ Lock And Key ’ . |
| 8 | I hoped the wild beauty of the mountains would help me . |
| 9 | And Ches would keep me company when nobody else would … . |
| 10 | I am sure you will understand that the contents would choke me . |
| 11 | Yes , I own my own cab but the real mushers would have me if I took a fare . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I was a player , those sort of comments would fire me up ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I always give 110 per cent and that 's why fans at most clubs would want me to play for their teams if I was to get a move from Arsenal . ’ |
| 14 | WITH ALL THIS BRAVADO it 's rather ironic that none of the performers would tell me their real names . |
| 15 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 16 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |
| 17 | Food and drink would be brought to me every day from all the villages , six hundred people would be my servants , three hundred men would make me a new suit , and six teachers would teach me their language . |
| 18 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 19 | But later he said : ‘ If the public thinks I deserve to fight for the title again and one of the champions would give me a title shot , I 'll come back . |
| 20 | He also decided that his usual debt-collection procedures would persuade me of that seriousness . |
| 21 | It 's a great tribute to the that they have managed triumph over adversity and achieved such tremendous results this season and I am sure that members would want me to place on record the Council 's congratulations on their performance . |
| 22 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 23 | He and his friends would have me scoffed and hounded out of the county rather than see my house completed . |
| 24 | For years afterwards my fellow pupils would remind me that he got a gong — an Air Force Medal — for teaching me to fly . |
| 25 | Food and drink would be brought to me every day from all the villages , six hundred people would be my servants , three hundred men would make me a new suit , and six teachers would teach me their language . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember when I was at college men would phone me and I would n't have any idea who they were . |
| 27 | He said he thought some of my men would follow me if I decided to go on . |
| 28 | The guys would chat me up , y'know , like — [ imitating an African accent ] ‘ I want you to be my wife ’ — and I found it all really flattering . |
| 29 | ‘ Opinion polls show that exactly 39 per cent of our voters would like me to have a relationship with Labour and the other 39 per cent would like us to have a relationship with the Tories . |
| 30 | My children would hate me . |