Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] them [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 During that time I had them out three times because I thought I 'd make them see .
2 If I were growing potatoes , like most sensible gardeners I 'd let them grow .
3 Joy-riders , I 'd let them go .
4 Oh I 'd let them come , I 'd let them come whenever you can get them cos we 've got so many of them it 's
5 Oh I 'd let them come , I 'd let them come whenever you can get them cos we 've got so many of them it 's
6 I was so elated and relieved I could have kissed them , but immediately felt ashamed that I 'd let them see my fear .
7 I 'd let them know what we were like in here behind our austere surnames and our net curtains .
8 " Every week or so I 'd see them come in for their beef ration .
9 I would make them pay for what they 've done .
10 She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’
11 I did n't know though did I I thought you 'd let them cool !
12 You 'd let them hang till they 'd set yeah .
13 You would hear them say , ‘ I was speaking to Larry last week . ’
14 It would have been better if we 'd let them live .
15 Well all these people , we would always let them ha when we killed one we would share it out amongst the people who had given them , like er , I do n't say every time but occasionally we would do that and we 'd let them have a piece of pork you see , which we could legally do see .
16 By June they 'd let them go !
17 They 'd let them sink down to the bottom and drift there with the long-haired weeds — ;
18 And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in .
19 They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good .
20 Jesus , he 'd make them pay .
21 He would make them pay .
22 If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals .
23 By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with .
24 Thousands of people took AZT in the hope that it would make them feel better and live longer .
25 Debasement of the coinage led Wriothesley to call the Mint ‘ our holy anchor ’ ; its profits were such that he told Paget to keep its operations secret , ‘ for if it should come out that men 's things coming thither be thus employed , it would make them withdraw and so bring a lack ’ .
26 It would help them adjust to the culture and tell them when they 're being abused and how to answer back .
27 They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name .
28 They would not object to such a tight fit , in fact it would help them keep their restless horses under control , but once they had set spurs and the horses bolted , murder occurred . ’
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