Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would instruct me in the history of the world while the people of the world walked by , ignoring the salvation we offered them , and the icy wind blew around our ankles . |
| 2 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 3 | He still treated Edward coolly , stating with conviction that he had his orders direct from London and saw no need to go over them in detail , and no possibility that he would modify them on the say-so of a junior officer he did not know . |
| 4 | If she asked or noticed it , he would blame it on the college refusal . |
| 5 | He would do it on the set , between takes , too . |
| 6 | He would meet her in the bar around six o'clock . |
| 7 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
| 8 | Pete Waterman had once promised his prodigy that one day he would transform her into the Madonna . |
| 9 | He said that he would telePhone her on the following Thursday . |
| 10 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 11 | I thought he would slide me into the strait-jacket right away . |
| 12 | His last thoughts were that he would make amends for this day ; he could baptise the maiden , they could be saved together , they could marry , he would love her , his heathen maiden , no , his heathen hoyden , he liked the rhyming of that , heathen hoyden , he would cherish her beneath the fruit-laden tree . |
| 13 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 14 | If something went wrong with his contract killer perhaps he would talk it over the way he talked over his builder . |
| 15 | That really turned my stomach , even if , I mean I remember when I was carrying , when I was carrying the twins , and he used to go out huge things you know , and so much so that if he came home in the night , right , and I was already in bed asleep , I would be able to er , he would wake me in the bedroom cos I could smell smoke on him , but he did n't smoke , but where he 'd been the pub or a night club , I smelt |
| 16 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 17 | The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road . |
| 18 | In the morning he would drop it into the Echo office on his way to the inquest . |
| 19 | She had thought then he would bring her into the shop , as he had herself , and trained her into the business , not only the confectionery and tobacconists , but the little factory across the yard where they made most of their boiled sweets and toffee . |
| 20 | My father said that he would bring him to the station . |
| 21 | He would lead them into the yard and behind the sheds , and then he 'd point at nothing and say there it was . |
| 22 | Harmless in himself — we thought — he would lead us to the dangerous ones if there were any . |
| 23 | Vincent had sworn that he would love her to the grave and beyond . |
| 24 | He said he would leave me on the wing as long as me and my girlfriend did n't twos-up with each other [ visit one another 's cells during the association period ] . |
| 25 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 26 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 27 | Cumberland , an eye-witness recorded , ‘ jumped around the room with joy ’ on learning he could resume his pursuit of the rebels , ‘ and declared that he would follow them to the further part of Scotland . ’ |
| 28 | Heseltine declares that he can not foresee the circumstances in which he would challenge her for the leadership . |
| 29 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 30 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |