Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 2 | The task of reconciling the various movements and factions was considered one of the most difficult he would face in the months ahead . |
| 3 | He would sympathize with the computer that puts up its little sign , ‘ Memory full ’ . |
| 4 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 5 | The young houseman appeared to be consulting a list , and Richard , anxious to help a beginner , tried to indicate that he would bleed from the ears if it was the right thing to do . |
| 6 | Asked last year what he would do about the loss of his top stars , Grigorovich said defiantly : ‘ If the stars leave we will bring up another generation , and when they go , we will bring up another . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Baughan is in no doubt about what he would do to the attackers . |
| 8 | So I held my breath when conductor En Shao took the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra through the fastest fourth movement of Tchaikovsky 's 4th symphony I have ever heard , wondering what he would do with the resonations . |
| 9 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 10 | He would invade in the east , making no secret of his intention from Northumberland ; and Balliol , necessarily stiffen d by Lord Dacre and Sir Anthony Lucy , the English Middle and West March Wardens respectively , was to march in from Carlisle and Cumbria . |
| 11 | Some afternoons he would hide with the Bookman above Mr Crangle 's desk and watch him working . |
| 12 | At the same time his pathological detestation of ‘ popery ’ guaranteed that he would vote with the Whigs over great questions of policy , such as the Hanoverian succession and the war with France . |
| 13 | The right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East said yesterday that he would vote for the Government because the Prime Minister was clearly determined to follow a path that the right hon. and learned Gentleman favoured . |
| 14 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at the committee stage of the Finance Bill or when Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , makes his announcement uprating benefits in the autumn . |
| 15 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at a later stage . |
| 16 | Will the right hon. Gentleman explain to the House more clearly what sort of involvement he would expect from the DTI ? |
| 17 | Indeed I think that the the the present secretary of state for whom I have great respect and regard , I think he would be very well advised to think again , because I think that the temporary derision that he would meet in the House of Commons would be nothing as compared with the the er the wounding that he will sustain later if and when things go wrong with these proposals . |
| 18 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 19 | For half the year , he would sleep at The Kilns . |
| 20 | On miserable days when both of us were low , he would delve into the depths of a pannier and give me a mini Mars bar or some peanuts . |
| 21 | The three men watched the animal snuffling among the elder and then , satisfied that he would nibble at the leaves , they left the stable and turned towards the house . |
| 22 | I , I mean it 's only by the good will of the police that we can get down there and that , , this is , this is my concern Mr Chairman , in , in theory what I would like , if there was a serious emergency , you 'd get a senior officer in here straight away , and I mean he would negate to the police , we have no authority over them , only cooperate with the police . |
| 23 | It was to ensure that throughout the years that lay ahead he would remain on the road . |
| 24 | He would remain on the sidelines , and do some more work if and when they were ready to launch the paper . |
| 25 | After two courses of treatment , he was driven home to Wiltshire , where he would remain until the start of the third course . |
| 26 | up until now , but , well are different now this is the last place he stopped , he would walk down the road if he heard of a job for five pound more |
| 27 | Often , when his father and stepmother were in London during the week , he would walk around the house checking that all the pictures and furniture were in place . |
| 28 | He would walk around the block for a while and give Mrs Popple a chance to calm down . |
| 29 | This was the serious business of becoming rich — a fantasy which involved descriptions of the clinic he would open with the proceeds , the disciples he would train , and the short burst of bad temper or glum despair as he checked his coupon and found he had n't won . |
| 30 | Afterwards Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister , declared that President Gorbachev said that " he would continue on the path to reform even if he sometimes had to take a detour " . |