Example sentences of "would have you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not this will lure me , for I 'd have you know |
| 2 | I 'd have you know , my destiny is glorious . |
| 3 | If this did n't come all the way from the top , I 'd have you walk under a squad car on the way out of the building . |
| 4 | Both Poutsma ( 1923 : 42 ) and Jesperson ( 1940 : 287 ) point out that have is often used with the to infinitive in conditional contexts with would : ( 178 ) I 'd have you to know that I do n't care a penny , madam , for your paltry money . |
| 5 | That 's exactly what I 'd have you do ! ’ |
| 6 | They 'd have you carrying the coconuts on your head |
| 7 | I would have you imagine a swimming pool . |
| 8 | I would have you stay a week only and behave yourself with kindness to me . |
| 9 | ‘ T was such a strange place to … but Matilda said she would have you killed and … |
| 10 | ‘ I would have you know , ’ said one of the four protagonists of the Oxbridge revue Beyond The Fringe in 1960 , ‘ that some people in this great country of ours can run a mile in four minutes ! ’ |
| 11 | Now with the older West Indian people we would have you know , a passing sort of conversations and I know a couple of them came to help to get me to help them to fill in D H S S forms and things like that . |
| 12 | I am hunky-dory and peachy creamy and this , I would have you know , is a peignoir and not a slummocky old dressing-gown . " |
| 13 | ‘ I would have you wear it on a ribbon inside your bodice . ’ |
| 14 | Or so the organisers would have you think . |
| 15 | VISUAL display units are not the radiation hazard some people would have you think , according to E. A. Cox , Her Majesty 's Principal Inspector at the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 16 | Henry would have you think he 's a real no-nonsense type — more the rugged Bryan Brown than a glamorous Mel Gibson — but upon entering Robert 's car , I had my chin joyfully slurped by the rising star himself . |
| 17 | I would have you smile too , fair cousin , as it is my hope and one that you are privy to that you may soon be more to me than cousin . |
| 18 | It aids digestion , prevents obesity , soothes the spirit and quickens the mind — or so its addicts would have you believe . |
| 19 | What 's clear is that the Polo is not the all-new supermini Volkswagen would have you believe . |
| 20 | The essential thing is accuracy , for swimfeeder fishing is not the willy-nilly method of fishing that some anglers would have you believe . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a lot rarer than novelists would have you believe . ’ |
| 22 | We match for tonal characteristics , not candle light or simple power output , as Hartley 's analogy would have you believe . |
| 23 | Your average chocolate bar , far from being the energy snack advertisers would have you believe , is loaded with fat . |
| 24 | The high cost of structured CPE : myth and reality CPE does n't have to be as expensive as many firms would have you believe |
| 25 | Stacy Keach , a far more versatile actor than his many mundane films would have you believe , was busted at Heathrow Airport and served three months of a nine-month sentence at Reading Jail . |
| 26 | Clearly , despite their terribly twee name , pudding-bowl haircuts and crap clothes , they are not the washed-up jangle group their detractors would have you believe . |
| 27 | But Polly , I 'm not the Casanova the gossip columns would have you believe . |
| 28 | One thing she knew was that you had to keep quiet around fish , or so men would have you believe . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And Boro fans , of course , are as fanatical as any despite what everyone else would have you believe . |