Example sentences of "[prep] he would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she 'd look after him would n't she ? |
| 2 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 3 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 5 | Then at least something of him would be left . ’ |
| 6 | On the phone the other day you said that if only you and Dennis had had children then something of him would have survived . |
| 7 | Those who spoke ill of him would find it difficult to continue such activity without a jaw to move , he considered , and made a mental note to put one of the Secte Rouge in charge of security . |
| 8 | It was against all he believed in and yet some inner part of him would stop at nothing to attract Jeopardy 's notice . |
| 9 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
| 10 | The knowledge she had of him would armour her against belief . |
| 11 | ‘ Part of him would be very pleased that you were laughing at him . |
| 12 | Without technology like this , Jonathon and thousands like him would be debarred from even the simplest form of human interaction . |
| 13 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 14 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 15 | In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game . |
| 16 | Then I 'm off to see Alexander O'Neal — people like him would never travel to Australia . |
| 17 | How many other exiles like him would his example encourage ? |
| 18 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 19 | A strange circle — not all of one tribe or one nation , but ever-present , as though rubbing up against him would give them some strength . |
| 20 | If he agreed , the threat of proceedings against him would be unnecessary . |
| 21 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 22 | Paul , whose remark had been the opening move in a carefully planned campaign to enhance Bodo 's image so that his plan to leave school and work with him would not meet resistance , meekly accepted the rebuke and the order , especially as the television he wanted to watch was a rock concert . |
| 23 | I debated with myself whether it was right to have lunch with an aristocrat but I was also very curious to see what lunch with him would be like and accepted the invitation . |
| 24 | She was wailing now like a baby herself ; marriage with him would mean more of them , her body used every night , and no theatre again , ever . |
| 25 | I 'm absolutely sure that a chat with him would help you . |
| 26 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 27 | She had come to suspect that her affair with him would not be straightforward , that he was not sent by heaven to redeem her from chastity . |
| 28 | The old King was now hurrying south and with him would come those grizzled warlords who followed like mastiffs at the royal heels . |
| 29 | Rather , he looked forward to the day when those who sympathized with him would " kill the men of the imperial party without pity " . |
| 30 | No matter who she met in the future , that walk in the lemon-scented night with him would be one part of her she would never share with anyone . |