Example sentences of "would [verb] me [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 2 | ‘ They might have happened by now if you 'd just let me see this … opera , TV series , pop-up-book , whatever the hell it is ; and if you 'd let me talk to a few people . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me explain to Old Red . |
| 4 | ‘ Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd be immensely pleased if you 'd let me stay with you at your place and take care of you for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me sleep in another bed . |
| 6 | Oh , if only he 'd let me go with him ! ’ |
| 7 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 8 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me look at it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing would make me go in there , ’ she said , scrambling down the steps . |
| 10 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 11 | It would be best , perhaps , if you would let me finish before asking anything . |
| 12 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ If I had a bit more pay , he would let me come to you , you would have to keep me in grub if I was an apprentice would n't you ? |