Example sentences of "would [vb infin] me a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish someone would lend me a farm hand , ’ said Dancer 's Interior Designer sulkily . |
| 2 | Mother would make me a packed lunch ; Dad deliver me to the bus station at St Andrew Square , Edinburgh . |
| 3 | I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer . |
| 4 | I thought he would make me a delightful Uncle Richard . |
| 5 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It did n't look er odd it looked okay so that would make me a bit more confident I think a bit less self conscious . |
| 8 | Now they would consider me a bad child for ever . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 10 | I would be grateful if you would buy me a small house somewhere , perhaps near Bristol where I can find work . ’ |
| 11 | And he would show me a picture of a large white vessel sailing through a beautifully blue sea on a sunny day , with a glamorous crew smiling happily as they lay gracefully about the deck . |
| 12 | I wished somebody would show me a weapon |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He thought he would do me a service by telling me that the Ice Princess who had caught my eye was right here , in Roma . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | However , I was immediately transferred to Glynn , a technical guy who took my fax number with the promise that he would send me a drawing that morning of the necessary mods . |
| 17 | I wrote to Lotus Water Products in Burnley asking if anything could be done and was advised by the company to send them the pump — they would send me an estimate for the repair . |
| 18 | That would n't be time enough to think but at least it would give me a chance to calm down . |
| 19 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 22 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 23 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 24 | ‘ She would give me a hug and a kiss when I came home from work . ’ |
| 25 | It would give me a chance to see your wrist plaster has dried correctly and give our students a rare opportunity to see how fit and active a lady of your age can be . ’ |
| 26 | This would give me a base to aim for . |
| 27 | It would give me a reputation . |
| 28 | She promised to find something else to sell me , and said that she would give me a ring . |
| 29 | ‘ Ah , so you would give me a different opinion at Walworth ? ’ |
| 30 | It would help me and er it would give me a greater understanding . |