Example sentences of "he would [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The kids would wake up early and he would disappear under a pile of wrapping paper . |
| 32 | He took the notebook with him ; sometimes he would sit at a desk or table and write , losing any idea of time or place , roused later by the discovery that his leg had gone numb or he had cramp in his foot . |
| 33 | Never using notes , he would sit on a table swinging his legs , his long underpants showing between his trousers and boots , or perch on a chair at an angle so perilous that disaster threatened . |
| 34 | Today he would sit in a think-tank , cosseted by secretaries and flattered by a stream of calls from talk-show producers . |
| 35 | And then he 'd meet the boys and want to play football — he was mad about rugby football , he would play with a tin can if there was nothing else . |
| 36 | These he would produce with a flourish during our Wednesday- and Sunday-evening sessions . |
| 37 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |
| 38 | The defender said he would sell at a price of £70,000 . |
| 39 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 40 | One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 41 | GLAFCOS Clerides , elected president of Cyprus with hardline backing , said yesterday he would ask for a postponement in UN-sponsored peace talks . |
| 42 | Asked whether he would ask for a postponement of the talks Mr Clerides said : ‘ This was my position in the election campaign , and it still stands . ’ |
| 43 | Much earlier at the last supper Jesus had promised that when he returned to God , he would ask for a gift to be sent to his friends . |
| 44 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 45 | And when she showed him Elise 's diary he would collapse like a house built of cards . |
| 46 | When SAVE heard Sir Horace Jones ' Victorian market was to close and the traders move to new premises in Docklands , we immediately contacted Richard Rogers , who had just received planning permission for the new Lloyd 's building , to ask if he would work on a refurbishment scheme . |
| 47 | She recalled a promise made by Mr Major when he became Prime Minister : that he would work for a nation at ease with itself . |
| 48 | Gradually , however , the games became a bit to rough for Stan and he would retire after a while . |
| 49 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ The raid scenes are terrific , ’ he would say after a day 's shooting flushed with love of his work . |
| 51 | For weeks he would live in a world by himself conscious as he watched the humdrum routine of his fellow prisoners that he was destined for higher things and happy in the knowledge that he was not as other men . |
| 52 | He would fall into a pit , he would descend to hell . |
| 53 | Easier to imagine him here , thinking : ‘ Is it worth it ? ’ , for if he rolled his rock up this slope he would come to a heap of rubbish — and when it rolled back it would end up in another even bigger heap . |
| 54 | She imagined that he would come to a halt , but his fingers began to explore inside her knickers , moving steadily towards her warm and willing crotch . |
| 55 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 56 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 57 | And every week after that , he would come with a man — a big man — in a huge Mercedes , pushed all the way down Vernon Yard until the nose touched the windowframes of the Virgin offices . |
| 58 | Sometimes , when in funds , as he thought of it , he would spruce himself up and visit the West End where occasionally he would come across a wartime crony in a small , ex-officers ' club in South Kensington . |
| 59 | Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money . |
| 60 | But he reneged on that promise and said he would wait for a message from God . |