Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
| 2 | And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away . |
| 3 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 4 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |
| 5 | I do n't have the hand strength to play really fast things on them , and so that would have slowed me down anyway . |
| 6 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | If he really loved me he would have sent me away . |
| 9 | I did n't try asking any Vadinamian officials , because they would have sent me angrily on my way . |
| 10 | ‘ If I had known you were ill , nothing on this earth would have kept me away . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can not even grieve over this child , for it would have kept me here . |
| 12 | Because you would have tied me up . ’ |
| 13 | He would have loved me , oh yes , he would have loved me very much for a while . |
| 14 | To have funked it , and then known I had let him off lightly , would have cost me even more sleepless nights . |
| 15 | I bought these Levi 501 's for £25 back home they would have cost me double that . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 18 | If he 'd had his way he would have checked me out beforehand , but I circumvented him . |
| 19 | Do n't you think the FedPol would have checked me out , since Vadinamia ? |
| 20 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 21 | Luckily , my mum is sound ; she never would have thrown me out for putting rips in my jeans or anything like that . |
| 22 | But Vadinamia 's spaceport city is a compact place , and any tails would have picked me up again soon enough . |
| 23 | That would have helped me more than going to prison and mixing with all them people and just getting depressed and fed up and full of hatred . |
| 24 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 27 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 28 | Erm if I tried they would have caught me so I just stand still and do n't scream or cry because I 'll get some more . |