Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake was not averse to entering such places , but could think of a number of things he 'd prefer to do at this time . |
| 2 | If he did n't want a beating , or worse , he 'd have to pander to these monsters . |
| 3 | So I well I sent him er our sheets , er sheet about the group and the minutes and er I contacted Michael er , who said he 'll be very happy to help in , so I er phoned up this chap and said , gave him Michael 's number and said erm he 'd like to come to this meeting tonight , he said yes , so I went to pick him up and I just could n't find that blinking house , anyone who knows Harlow , he 's in Parsonage Leys , I just could n't find the number it was , I just could n't find anything less than thirty seven |
| 4 | Like Lord Byron [ q.v. ] , who suffered a similar deprivation and whom he would grow to resemble in other ways , Douglas hero-worshipped the absent captain , at twelve beginning an autobiographical essay : ‘ As a child he was a militarist , and like many of his warlike elders , built up heroic opinions upon little information — some scrappy war stories of his father . ’ |
| 5 | The neighbours thought him very odd , because he would start to carve at two or three in the morning when he came home . |
| 6 | I 'm going to ask Professor Lock if he would like to open on this er this matter and proceed policy to major exceptions etcetera . |
| 7 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 8 | He decided that school was not somewhere he would like to go at this point because he looked pretty bad . |
| 9 | AN ESSEX MP yesterday urged the Prime Minister to come clean about a ‘ sensational ’ list of Government services which it is believed he would like to place in private hands . |
| 10 | He would like to transfer from administrative work to the sales staff of the aluminium company for which he worked . |
| 11 | He does not however see Bull following ICL Plc and becoming an 80%-owned subsidiary of a Japanese company , but he would n't say how much of the equity he would allow to pass into foreign hands . |
| 12 | He does not however see Bull following ICL Plc and becoming an 80%-owned subsidiary of a Japanese company , but he would n't say how much of the equity he would allow to pass into foreign hands . |
| 13 | He had seen Caballeros make his 3 and knew that unless the Spaniard cracked he would need to finish with two birdies himself . |
| 14 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 15 | For his defence , he would have to rely on one of the defences in section 24 ( paragraph 16–22 below ) , which would involve showing that he had taken all reasonable steps ( to withdraw the brochure etc. ) to avoid committing the offence . |
| 16 | But to take such comments as proof that de Gaulle already knew what he would have to do in 1962 is a leap made only by Gaullists predisposed to elevate the General 's prescience to superhuman levels or by fanatical anti-Gaullists predisposed to exaggerate the depths of his duplicity . |
| 17 | She would be confused , but he would have to deal with that . |
| 18 | ‘ No organisation , no individual , could have threatened his security , but Najibullah , because of the threat of the restoration of peace and the fear that he would have to answer for some of his past deeds , tried to flee , ’ said Mr Wakil . |
| 19 | He would have to take on extra labour , he was thinking . |
| 20 | ‘ For this wedding he would have to save for many years . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ she denied drily , and he would have to make of that what he would , because she could n't explain why she had come , not the real reason , because it was private , and because the woman she had come to find , the woman her grandfather had asked her to look up , deliver the package to , might be very angry — and rightfully so — if she discussed her business with other people . |
| 22 | If a Prime Minister were to be ousted from the Leadership of his party , he would have to resign as Prime Minister . |
| 23 | If it were successful , he would have to resign as Prime Minister . |
| 24 | He would have to think of some more immediate way of annoying Gina . |
| 25 | First he would have to learn about this place , learn about how things worked here before he might start with a few tentative enquiries . |
| 26 | The Sheehy plan could mean he would have to stay to 60 to get a full pension . |
| 27 | Now he would have to depend upon cruder means — on bribery and blackmail . |
| 28 | he would have to break into that caravan |
| 29 | And if Guido was trying to get her back up by suggesting that Arnie might be enjoying some romantic peccadillo , he would have to look for another way to upset her . |
| 30 | The therapist asked Tony to suggest how he would try to cope with similar problems in the future . |