Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a like manner the traveller in a three-dimensional , homogeneous , isotropic , positively curved space would eventually return to his starting point . |
| 2 | Luke 's age would only add to his glamour . |
| 3 | It was the chance that she would see Alain , that he would suddenly come with his dark , sardonic smiles , his caustic comments and his unexpected kisses . |
| 4 | But this was what he liked , the wide expanse of turbulent sea , browny-grey , white-laced under a limitless sky , windows which he could open so that , at a touch of his hand , the faint continuous boom like distant thunder would instantaneously pour into his office in a roar of crashing billows . |
| 5 | For various reasons the king would have preferred to keep his hands free , but as soon as he realized that Anselm would not move from his position and might leave the country , he decided to recognize Urban II . |
| 6 | But she would not stand for his condescension . |
| 7 | Soft would not fit into his vocabulary . |
| 8 | Mrs Sisulu , co-president of the United Democratic Front , said her husband would resume his leading role in the anti-apartheid movement and would not waver in his commitment to the ANC — considered a criminal organisation by the government . |
| 9 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |
| 11 | He refused to take her to the pub to have a drink , explaining that he did not want to hurt Jayne , who would not approve of his energy being spent on anything other than skating . |
| 12 | Norster , however , would not deviate from his script . |
| 13 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 14 | He acquired some unpleasant skin disease , and his mother would not pray for his healing until he begged her forgiveness . |
| 15 | Whether or not Pluto ruled her temperament , she would not rise to his bait . |
| 16 | But the BBC was confused last night over Birt 's comments to a Sunday Times journalist in America , in which he appeared to say that Eldorado would not survive under his tenure as director general . |
| 17 | He led the war-effort locally by encouraging volunteers to enlist , saying , ‘ I would not consider my son fit for recognition in civil society if he would not fight for his land , his flag , and his king . ’ |
| 18 | I can not think of any United States naval officer whom I would sooner have in his place in those near-impossible circumstances . |
| 19 | He 's learning English joining in the playschool activities he would normally do at his age anyway |
| 20 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 21 | The very essence of his character was against him , creating doubts and rumours which would always stand in his way . |
| 22 | In other words , the singularity would always lie in his future and never in his past . |
| 23 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 24 | On the facts presented in the pleadings , provided that the defendant could show some independent evidence that his COMBI truck was sold at an undervalue , he would probably succeed in his defence and counterclaim . |
| 25 | Savile Row tailor R.J.W. Gieve suspects that it was an attitude born of the realization that the tailor would probably wait for his money rather than press for payment and jeopardize goodwill and the prospect of future orders . |
| 26 | He would also read to his wife at the end of the day — from Boswell 's Life of Johnson , from Coleridge 's Letters , from Rudyard Kipling 's Kim ( an especial favourite ) and sometimes from his own work . |
| 27 | On Saturdays as a special treat Granpa would allow me to go along with him to the early morning market in Covent Garden , where he would select the fruit and vegetables that we would later sell from his pitch , just opposite Mr Salmon 's and Dunkley 's , the fish and chippy that stood next to the baker 's . |
| 28 | But Balliol himself ? presumably he would now return to his army in the west . |
| 29 | There 's a few , but I , I , I do n't think that that would really go with his suit . |
| 30 | Ah no he was , he , he would n't sit on his chair cos he 'd just called me an arsehole and I goes oh sit down Greg ! |