Example sentences of "he would [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E loves Rachel an' 'e 'd give me the top brick off the chimney if I asked 'im , but 'e 's a worrier . |
| 2 | Anyway he says he 'd pay him the same money as what he 's on there , 'cos he 'd have to really , would n't just say , say |
| 3 | If she had the nerve , the sheer bloody brass neck , to do that , then maybe he 'd give her a few minutes . |
| 4 | When we got the vans , Ernie was with us then and he always used to sharpen her knife up so as he 'd give her a fresh one lunchtime to go , he 'd , she 'd start off up , down from where you 'd come from this morning , then she 'd go on to Wicken and do that on a Tuesday , Tuesday round . |
| 5 | He 'd give us a withering look as we slogged our way round the parade-ground , attempting to move like real soldiers . |
| 6 | Er n not really , you you may talk your way into some peasant 's house , and er er he 'd give you a scrambled egg or or something like this , and er that was something , if you got a scrambled egg . |
| 7 | Next time he 'd do them a bloody bunch of daffodils . |
| 8 | After showing the boy how it was done , he 'd offer him the two iron rods — the hot ends towards him . |
| 9 | He 'd teach you a few tricks ! |
| 10 | Never mind , he 'd buy her a nice bunch of flowers from that stall outside the infirmary on his way home . |
| 11 | If he had any sense he 'd get himself a good lawyer and keep his mouth shut . ’ |
| 12 | He was an affable sort of man who did n't look as though he would do anyone a bad turn . ’ |
| 13 | Many of us try to improve our other halves from time to time — perhaps you wish he were tidier while he would prefer you a little slimmer . |
| 14 | If they had been beaten in a fight , he would give them a good hiding and send them back out to do the job properly . |
| 15 | Rutherford said that he would give him a 20-minute start , then drive back through the village and collect him . |
| 16 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 17 | ‘ If I asked my husband about sex with other women he would give me an honest answer . ’ |
| 18 | If he owned his house , he thought to himself , he would give it a good coat of paint , put a smart gate on it . |
| 19 | He would give it a whole chapter . |
| 20 | I think he would treat us a little bit , o the way he treated Nicodemus and come in pretty quickly , and deal with the real issues . |
| 21 | I thought he would make me a delightful Uncle Richard . |
| 22 | He would play us a popular classical piece , explaining what the compose was trying to get across to the listener . |
| 23 | But then he saw that he could not afford to believe her , because if he did he would allow her a tactical advantage , a small victory that should lead to greater ones . |
| 24 | But he would deny her the simple comfort of being a presence in the apartment , she reflected savagely . |
| 25 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 26 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |
| 27 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 28 | Then he would realize what a good girl she had been , how she had helped him . |