Example sentences of "to me [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 2 | He looked at his watch and said , " If it was up to me I would leave in ten minutes . " |
| 3 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |
| 4 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
| 5 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 6 | ‘ Still , if it had happened to me I would have been angry . ’ |
| 7 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 8 | If John 's moral life came to me I would say : |
| 9 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 10 | left to me I 'd take all curtains down |
| 11 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
| 12 | And he did say to me he would like to have seen her again at and monitor this , this |
| 13 | so I thought right , she said to me he 'd want a bottle , so come like ten past eleven , he 's like whinging , he 's drunk all his milk , then went up and come down and eat all his dinner and his pudding |
| 14 | ‘ It never occurred to me you 'd want anything else — or at least , ’ she amended with a sheepish smile , ‘ I never dared hope you would want anything else . |
| 15 | ‘ My life 's insured by the department , ’ he explains to Felicity , ‘ so that if anything happens to me you 'd get both a lump sum and a regular income . |