Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I know why he whacked me , I would whack me too . |
| 2 | Sometimes she would compare me unfavourably with her ideal daughter-in-law : ‘ So-and-so asks her husband 's mother for recipes . ’ |
| 3 | The girl , the lean teenager with W-shaped folds in the vent of her shut armpits , she would suit me right down to the ground . |
| 4 | I could have hugged my Mum that day for saving the harmonium but I was afraid if I did she would push me away . |
| 5 | She 'd let me get half-way close and then she would push me away . |
| 6 | She would take me there but could I wait while she changed her clothes . |
| 7 | I should , however , be grateful if you would advise me as early as possible if you have any comments regarding the proposals . |
| 8 | ‘ But my father says you would love me best if you were my wife , so that would be better . ’ |
| 9 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 10 | I 'd be grateful if you would ring me sometime to let me have your views . |
| 11 | If you would forgive me yet again , I must go to change into the appropriate costume . ’ |
| 12 | If you would seek me then |
| 13 | In October of this year I would like to hold another sale to raise £1,000 for Breast Cancer Research and would like to ask you readers if they would help me once again by donating one item no matter how small , or if they have some spare yarn but not time to knit it up and would like to donate the yarn I have some people who would help me to knit it . |
| 14 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 15 | Then he became angry , and threatened that he would silence me forever , if I would not agree . |
| 16 | On our way home I explained to her that if her father discovered she had visited Wuthering Heights , he would perhaps be so angry with me that he would send me away . |
| 17 | He knew well the anxiety this would create as I wondered whether one day he would turn me away . |
| 18 | He said he would drive me home . |
| 19 | He agreed and said he would train me so that I could take the necessary exams . |
| 20 | So he would see me later . |
| 21 | He never said another word until the end when he told me he would be going out at 8 AM with the same four-ball and he would see me then . |
| 22 | When he got up to go I tried to tell him that I understood , that I would n't say anything if he would take me home , but he backed away out . |
| 23 | ‘ It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’ |
| 24 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
| 26 | No need to stiffen up like that — you must see that it would affect me professionally . ’ |
| 27 | I was surprised , certainly , but I did n't think it would affect me too much . ’ |
| 28 | it would throw me completely if you put , if you changed some of the number plates over . |
| 29 | It would ruin me completely . ’ |
| 30 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |