Example sentences of "he would [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 2 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |
| 3 | The solicitor was strongly professionally oriented : he would regale one with legal anecdotes , the humour of which depended on a prior deferential attitude to barristers and judges ; he was strict in his interpretation of professional ethics . |
| 4 | For him it became a kind of holy bird : he would handle it with deep respect , and spent hours in rapt contemplation of it . |
| 5 | But it was not vulgarity , just rudery — and he would do it for some very distinguished people we had on the set sometimes . ’ |
| 6 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 7 | If she asked , he would accuse her of nagging , of wanting to keep tabs on him . |
| 8 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 9 | By day Hayling would help organize the workers at Langley , and in the evenings he would throw himself into pressure-group work . |
| 10 | The meteorology men told him his wind strengths at his chosen altitude of 50,000 feet , and he worked out he would make it in 5.4 hours flying at Mach . |
| 11 | He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary . |
| 12 | Dr Courtney , she told me , had said that he would help her in any way he could . |
| 13 | This would enable him to restore the foot to the proper position of function , and he would keep it like that by strapping it into a right-angle splint , with a kind of plate under the foot attached to splints up the calf . |
| 14 | If he loses I hope he would accept it with equal good grace and if he wins I will be a good loser and help him out in the general election . ’ |
| 15 | Let R.M. consult him if there was any difficulty and he would support him in any steps necessary for the national interest . ' |
| 16 | He was delighted , said he would mark it for immediate release to the newspapers under the Branch Secretary 's name . |
| 17 | if we suppose a traveller to set out from Venice on March 1 , 1245 , the first day of the Venetian year , he would find himself in 1244 when he reached Florence ; and if after a short stay he went on to Pisa , the year 1246 would already have begun there . |
| 18 | He said he would provide me with male clients for sex therapy . |
| 19 | If they both ran into Viola , he would introduce her as that , and if he waited awhile , fate might save him the trouble of a divorce , anyway . |
| 20 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 21 | She should look after herself , as well , and he would see her in five years ' time . |
| 22 | Smiled and said he would have her under any circumstances . |
| 23 | Perhaps he would say it in some lonely place in the hills with someone on the lookout for the searching redcoats . |
| 24 | Yet , Lucille knew , he would remember none of those pacifist lessons if he saw Lord John . |
| 25 | There are fears that as President he would sting them with stiffer tax bills . |
| 26 | He would catch her like this , she thought disgustedly , old jeans , old sweater , dirty hands — and face , a quick glance in the mirror told her . |
| 27 | He would take her to good restaurants . |
| 28 | It left Harry in no doubt that he would learn nothing from this man without offering him something in return . |