Example sentences of "he would [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd bark at a bird wo n't it ? |
| 2 | Er I 've known er one bloke he , he 'd send for a pint of Shipstons beer when it was sixpence a pint , and then he 'd send for another pint and he 'd be drunk , or , or he 'd be ready f to fight anybody that wanted to fight him . |
| 3 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |
| 4 | no the gourmet like detective yeah and they come in and they go God that was a tough crime and he 'd go after a crime I like something to eat and then he goes into the kitchen and he 's going |
| 5 | He 'd blame it all on the beer and the sherry , he 'd say with a laugh she 'd been right to tell him not to take any . |
| 6 | He 'd look at a problem and come up with a totally different answer to the one you 'd expect … |
| 7 | He 'd play for a hour or two , then leave . |
| 8 | And you know what he 'd have for a treat ? |
| 9 | With her head down , concentrating on pushing the skis along and her mind happily listing the insults she 'd love to heap on his golden head , Shannon failed to notice that he 'd come to a halt just a couple of feet in front of her , till she cannoned straight into his solid bulk , her skis sliding neatly between his . |
| 10 | The scene in the kitchens had been considerably more lively ; as he 'd shouldered his way through he 'd come upon a spectacle of controlled panic with Angelica presiding . |
| 11 | This is many times what he would earn as a university graduate in Bangladesh . |
| 12 | Mr Robert Mayor was n't too sure how he would vote in a council election , because of concern over reports of overspending by the hung Wirral authority and the effect on the poll tax . |
| 13 | But the clear implication yesterday that he would settle for a place on the bench this weekend should dovetail nicely with Ferguson 's thinking . |
| 14 | Sometimes he was too sick to eat anything all day , but other days he would sleep for a while and then get up for a meal . |
| 15 | He would walk in a day before a College hop and say , ‘ Good heavens : We must tart the place up a bit . |
| 16 | When Eliot had finished an extract , he would pause for a second or two , and then , as if to break the spell , switch his head quickly to the right . |
| 17 | She had hoped he would stay for a chat with her parents , but he was making it very obvious that that was n't part of his plan . |
| 18 | She knew that very soon he would break into a flamenco , that the local girls in their frills and flounces would mask him with their castanets and their swinging hips . |
| 19 | In the event , the deal which has emerged in Taif has justified the general 's fears of what he would regard as a sell-out of the Maronite cause . |
| 20 | Coming back to the place drunk , especially when he could n't find the light switch , was horrendous ; he would wake to a sight like Manhattan after a severe earthquake . |
| 21 | If he knew , he would go into a swoon ! |
| 22 | With that final remark he would go into a huff and that would be the end of the conversation . |
| 23 | He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly . |
| 24 | ( This latter was used to good effect by the hard-up Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; he would go to a party with a single cigarette in a packet and get free smokes all night long on the strength of it . ) |
| 25 | Er now whenever I 've me I honestly wish he would go under a sunlamp and melt ! |
| 26 | He was a giant of a man and did the work of three , and when someone flagged with exhaustion he would appear like a genie by his side and with a quiet word help him over the temporary crisis . |
| 27 | Max took an instant dislike to her and from then on , when she tried to speak , he would howl like a wolf and I got a dreadful fit of the giggles ! |
| 28 | He would type about a sentence , slowly and painfully ; then would come a swift , angry machine-gun rattle of repeated x's , followed by a long , long pause during which I found myself holding my breath , my mind forming wordless prayers . |
| 29 | Willis struggled to make his mark in a higher division and manager Brian Little thought he would benefit from a loan spell at Bradford . |
| 30 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |