Example sentences of "he would [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every spring he would hire a small bus to take the older children to the foothills of the Apennines . |
| 2 | How glorious seemed the morrow , Auguste thought , when he could resume his holiday ; tomorrow , after supervising a light luncheon , he would escort the delectable Araminta to the band concert of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . |
| 3 | Defence counsel , Michael Parroy , said because Jones was a magistrate , he would face a tough time in jail . |
| 4 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 5 | Dodd 's mother said : ‘ I wish he would choose a lethal injection . ’ |
| 6 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 7 | And England boss Graham Taylor has already warned that he would invoke the six-day release rule if the game is played this weekend . |
| 8 | He would distinguish the various forms in which meaning may be actualised from the underlying structures on which meaning rests . |
| 9 | It was reasonable to assume that , this time around he would stun the outside world with a similar manoeuvre , but this was not to be . |
| 10 | Flora , unwisely , told her class he would wear a purple robe and a great cross round his neck and a huge ring like a winegum . |
| 11 | I hoped , as we said goodbye , that he would suffer no psychological ill-effects from the deception , and that my exposure of it would not impair his relationship with his mother . |
| 12 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 13 | Then he would envelop the whole hand in his , clenching it into a clinching argument , a QED fist . |
| 14 | He would miss no more opportunities . |
| 15 | Thus , A. Smith may vote for , or lobby , Senator D. Ricardo to pass a bill reducing the income tax , since he would prefer a lower tax rate with the lower associated level of public goods . |
| 16 | He would prefer a seven day delay between the file examination and the final meeting to ensure that any points raised are dealt with in a more relaxed fashion and at whatever depth the JMU wishes . |
| 17 | No such assurance was received , but the German troops advanced very rapidly , cawing some concern to Russia , so Stalin decided that he would prefer the German troops to stop halfway across Poland and he sent his — troops into that poor country from the east . |
| 18 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 19 | The Indianapolis 500 is one of those races with a special mystique about it and if you talked to Mario about that one victory , he would admit the sheer joy of victory , ‘ going from chump to champ ’ in three hours , he called it in his autobiography . |
| 20 | Mr Yeltsin said that by December he would present a new law on forming a government that would have cancelled his special powers . |
| 21 | He calls Mr Forsyth a ‘ clever wee chiel ’ ( child ) , and as one raised in a hard debating school says he would relish a public debate with the Scottish Office Minister and the other candidates . |
| 22 | If only Cassan can get him safely through the speed leg , which so often plays a decisive part in the overall result , he looks as though he would relish the bigger obstacles expected for the second and third legs . |
| 23 | The French recognized him as heir to their throne by a treaty of May 1420 , on the understanding that he would marry the French King 's daughter , Catherine . |
| 24 | Perhaps for tomorrow he would prepare a true aioli de morue . |
| 25 | He would never be a rival , he would remain the loyal servant of the Chairman . |
| 26 | He would walk a long distance out to some pub , often the Malcolm Arms at Anton 's Gowt , and have lunch in the bar on beer and bread and cheese . |
| 27 | In India the production of salt was a government monopoly : he announced that he would walk the 250 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea and break the law by making salt . |
| 28 | Counsel for the prosecution then stated that he would offer no further evidence . |
| 29 | When Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Everett had given evidence , prosecuting counsel , after consulting those instructing him , said he would offer no further evidence . |
| 30 | The President also announced that he would form a transitional government of " national union " as early as January 1991 , which would seek to " strengthen state machinery " and " devote itself to restoring the ethics of the civil service . " |