Example sentences of "would have [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But listen to big Ray Close and he would have you believe that it was no big deal , just another fight and a chance to earn the kind of money he used to dream of as an amateur with Ledley Hall . |
| 2 | But David Stevenson , chief executive of Edinburgh Woollen Mills and former international pole-vaulter , would have you believe that he has just been rather lucky . |
| 3 | Oh yes , you would have I mean that that i it is a |
| 4 | ‘ Whosoever would have it known that he is not of the common herd ’ , suggested Clifford Howard , ‘ develops a spleen against the Hollywood movies . ’ |
| 5 | Marketing people would have us believe that every eighty-oddyear-old pianist who dies was ‘ the last of the Romantics ’ — yet there is something in that , and there does seem to be an increasing number of younger pianists who play , as Horowitz had it , like typewriters . |
| 6 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 7 | Some would have us believe that obscenity and pornography have no social impact . |
| 8 | Liverpool supporters would have us believe that they all originate from the Kop , but this is doubtful . |
| 9 | The popular press would have us believe that the whole of Parliament exchange bodily fluids and God knows what else at these sex fiestas . |
| 10 | ‘ Taken at face value individual companies would have us believe that their particular stance has been determined by purely altruistic considerations , such as meeting customer demand , protecting staff or defending religious principles . |
| 11 | The Government would have us believe that students have never had it so good . |
| 12 | I READ that some people ( HAS January 30 ) would have us believe that history did not take place in Hitler 's Nazi Germany . |