Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] [verb] me " in BNC.
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1 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
2 | I hoped it would stop haunting me . |
3 | I wanted to give her time to think over what harm it would do to tell me the truth . |
4 | I but it would have made me jump . |
5 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
6 | ‘ I can not even grieve over this child , for it would have kept me here . |
7 | I would n't , it would have saved me a chore , . |
8 | ‘ It would have saved me a lot of trouble . ’ |
9 | ‘ It would have saved me getting my shorts and T-shirt wet ! ’ |
10 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
11 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
12 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
13 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
14 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
15 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
16 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
17 | It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago . |
18 | I could see that , had he embarked upon the paper , it would have left me conscience-stricken in my turn . |
19 | It would have driven me mad to have been stuck behind a sewing machine all day , which some of my friends were . |
20 | It would have bothered me though a few years ago . |