Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd want to club him on the head with a soulier de satin after two hours , ’ said Roger , in a harsh hurrying tone . |
| 2 | I 'd like to punch him in the face for his insolence . |
| 3 | Just the hint of a vengeful smile accompanied the massage that we could n't just walk off with that there dog — we 'd have to take him to the parcels office and sign for him . |
| 4 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 5 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 6 | His counsel , Mr Thomas Shields , told Mr Justice Popplewell that the article , headed : ‘ Fash : I 'd have knocked him through the wall . |
| 7 | She 'd have to catch him in the morning — But catch him she would , she vowed silently . |
| 8 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 9 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 10 | ‘ I would like him to contact the police incase he can help but also because I would like to shake him by the hand . |
| 11 | When we indicated that we would like to clear him on the spot he was very reluctant to let us on board saying that the boat was " in a hell of a mess " ! |
| 12 | They were as David and Jonathan , but if anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose , and as for Charlie … |
| 13 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 14 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 15 | He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat . |
| 16 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 17 | Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her . |
| 18 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 19 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 20 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 21 | The Sixth Fleet , Talbot was aware , would have informed him of the presence of any of their aircraft in his vicinity , not from courtesy but because regulations demanded it , a fact of which O'Rourke was as well aware as he was . |
| 22 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 23 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
| 24 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 25 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |
| 26 | He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests . |
| 27 | At half-ten the ambulance would arrive to bring him to the county home . |
| 28 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 29 | ‘ However , to start with he 's asking if you would care to accompany him to the theatre along with some friends from his regiment . |