Example sentences of "me would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any edge that gave me would not last for long , and if I was going to protect my client , if she was my client , I 'd better get on with it . |
| 2 | ‘ A poor cripple like me would n't stand a chance against a big lump like you — especially when you got the boss 's daughter on your side … |
| 3 | CATHERINE And threatening me would n't have helped . |
| 4 | And strict interpretation of the ten miles and Mr reminded me would just pinch in a little bit erm of the of the West Yorkshire greenbelt . |
| 5 | Whether that was erm a child , whether it was a woman , anybody who tries to take my firearm from me would really have serious problems . |
| 6 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |