Example sentences of "would [vb infin] me a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother would make me a packed lunch ; Dad deliver me to the bus station at St Andrew Square , Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Food and drink would be brought to me every day from all the villages , six hundred people would be my servants , three hundred men would make me a new suit , and six teachers would teach me their language . |
| 3 | I thought he would make me a delightful Uncle Richard . |
| 4 | Now they would consider me a bad child for ever . |
| 5 | I would be grateful if you would buy me a small house somewhere , perhaps near Bristol where I can find work . ’ |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman would do me a great favour if he could kindly confirm that his party , if in power , would spend an extra £13 billion above what we are spending . |
| 7 | Mollie would send me a regular bulletin of her progress and since May 1986 she had reduced her weight from 12 stone 9 pounds to 10 stone 3 pounds ( a loss of 2 stone 6 pounds ) . |
| 8 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 9 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 10 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 11 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , so you would give me a different opinion at Walworth ? ’ |
| 13 | I would be grateful if you would give me a little notice if you intend to have a go at anything it contains ! |
| 14 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 15 | My niece , Alison , would call me a bourgeois revisionist , but if that 's what I was then I was content . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , Gav , I can just stay up till your drinking pals have decided to head home , or Norris 's card school chums finally drag themselves away , or crash out and snore on the Richter scale , whatever ; the fun rarely extends beyond three or four o'clock in the morning … why , that would leave me a good four or five hours ’ sleep before an early lecture . ’ |
| 17 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |