Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vividness with which stray insignificant pictures from childhood would suddenly appear before me . |
| 2 | The feeling of panic , the inability to move , the hyperventilation and the terrible fear would suddenly come over me . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 4 | After all , it would not do for me , a T'ang , to breach the Edict , would it ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do wish you would not laugh at me , Isabel . |
| 6 | I had wished Nour dead because he would not stay with me , and that had been a palimpsest of desire . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , when you would not dance with me . |
| 8 | He would not come to me in Paris ; so I went to him . |
| 9 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ When you would not dine with me on Tuesday , I drove that evening to my parents in Plzeň , but had I known you would sound so pleased to hear me , I would have driven back sooner than last night , ’ he lost no time in taking advantage . |
| 12 | Even drawing lightning sketches to then elaborate upon in the studio would not work for me . |
| 13 | Even drawing lightning sketches to then elaborate upon in the studio would not work for me . |
| 14 | Your stupid behaviour would normally result in me sending you to prison but I feel I can take a different course . ’ |
| 15 | Someone would usually answer for me : ‘ Oh , he 's watching the birds again , Miss . ’ |
| 16 | I never ever thought , my darling , that it would ever happen to me , that a man , a real man , a man with … . ’ she gave a little , happy gurgle , ‘ shoulders , and legs and eyes and things to say … would look at me … . ’ |
| 17 | that nothing rude would ever happen to me again . |
| 18 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 19 | It would probably to appropriate for me to er second the motion in Welsh er , but as you 're and neither the English Welsh I would just like to say a few things , one , to express the appreciation of my council for the and secondly , |
| 20 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 21 | Caroline and the family would often come with me and we 'd stay at the Butcher 's Arms overnight . |
| 22 | But you know that would n't matter to me ; if I had any ideas about Pete , he could be the stoker on that tramp . |
| 23 | It would n't matter to me who was manager of Everton at the moment , they would still be toiling to turn things around . |
| 24 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 25 | Claire would n't speak to me . |
| 26 | ‘ She would n't speak to me last time I was in your home , ’ she complained . |
| 27 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 28 | Here was a woman who would go down on me in her husband 's presence , but would n't touch me , would n't speak to me , would n't see me , unless he was there . |
| 29 | I went , but my friend would n't speak to me , let alone come out to keep me company . |
| 30 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |