Example sentences of "[noun] would [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tide had turned , and the ebb would help me downstream . |
| 2 | I decided that further thinking would get me nowhere . |
| 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 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 5 | ‘ If only my daddy would see me now ! ’ |
| 6 | Someone who comes in by the day would suit me admirably . ’ |
| 7 | A fortnight in Bromley would do me splendidly hmm ? |
| 8 | I was n't — I was n't at all sure your aunt would want me here again , but of course I wanted to come . |
| 9 | Even in these latter years , ‘ Only three old women at church yesterday , ’ my father would greet me hopefully , as cars streamed past in all directions . |
| 10 | I feel my present responsibilities are as much as I want to cope with and , from now on , promotion would take me away from teaching children . |
| 11 | I might not ask again until it was too late ; my native caution would betray me just as effectively as Arsenio and Osvaldo 's natural daring had subverted their judge-ment . |
| 12 | I told Joan de Warenne I would return in May , Edward thought — I little knew then that such calamity and change of fortune would summon me hither ! |
| 13 | Mercer would know me everywhere on the tram , I thought , but none of the other three would . |
| 14 | ‘ My monthly salary would buy me just four bottles of Johnny Walker whisky on the black market , ’ said Hatim , a professor of engineering at Baghdad University . |
| 15 | So I got a call one day , saying that they 'd like to audition me ; they would fly me to New York and Mike Rutherford would audition me there . |
| 16 | If my children were ill Laura would send me home immediately and I was even allowed to smoke in their presence . ’ |
| 17 | And , if I did n't think this bastard who 's making so fucking free with my dad 's house would follow me there , I 'd jump right back in this minute ! ’ |
| 18 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |