Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may imagine that bishops would rush to ordain him to make the point . |
| 2 | How dear Maisie , or Natalia , and certainly Emma , would laugh to see him enslaved by an ankle after their more generous gifts of person yet enslaved he was . |
| 3 | If it was Memet , she would prefer to greet him out here in the dusk , in darkness just burnished with the overspill glow from the street lamps , where he could n't see her face . |
| 4 | If she found he was pro-British and being forced to collaborate , the Marine Commandoes would endeavour to get him out alive . |
| 5 | Fraser would endeavour to contain him there . |
| 6 | Nor could he think of anyone who would want to kill him . |
| 7 | ‘ Have you any idea who would want to kill him , and why ? ’ |
| 8 | Would they also know who would want to kill him and why ? |
| 9 | Francis was n't the sort to make friends and influence people but I ca n't believe that anybody would want to murder him . ’ |
| 10 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 11 | I would stay to invent him , the way he had invented me . |
| 12 | The sergeant doubted if they would need to see him again . |
| 13 | There was nothing for it but for me to drive the ten miles there and back and pick it up , because the doctors would need to examine him and sign the certificate at 6.30 . |
| 14 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 15 | And yes , she would study to please him . |
| 16 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 17 | His Honour said that J 's dyslexia ‘ would appear to give him significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of his age ’ , and that J 's high intelligence was ‘ neither here nor there ’ in relation to the specific cause of the learning difficulty . |
| 18 | But he was still a very long way from knowing enough to judge the value of what each of them had chosen , or would choose to tell him , and what they would , for differing reasons , see fit to suppress . |
| 19 | They gave themselves to each other naturally , confident that she would take and hold as he would thrust and that she would give to let him thrust again — long and deep , longer and deeper , longer and deeper still — till both their hearts were thudding and each was lost in the act . |
| 20 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 21 | ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris . |
| 22 | I would like to see him . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Pyle would like to see him in Riyadh without delay . |
| 24 | Not satisfied , Harriet asked her to get in touch with her brother as she would like to see him . |
| 25 | One of your problems in this case is Fred , the chef : no doubt you would like to see him replaced by someone else who is equally skilled but a lot easier to work with . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's not expecting me , but I would like to see him . ’ |
| 27 | A lot of people would like to join him in those sentiments … |
| 28 | This smacks of an orchestrated campaign by those who are opposed to his policies and would like to do him dirt . ’ |
| 29 | By the way , next time a driver blocks an entrance to a property , preventing the people who live there from being able either to get in or out perhaps the driver would like to ask him or herself how they would like it . |
| 30 | I would like to reassure him that this is not unusual behaviour for this fish . |