Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] to 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 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |
| 5 | Whether or not Pluto ruled her temperament , she would not rise to his bait . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Balliol himself ? presumably he would now return to his army in the west . |
| 9 | " Do you think those people down there are really so different from us , Momma ? " he asked , keeping his voice low so that it would n't carry to his father 's ears . |
| 10 | If truth were told , it made her a lot more than simply afraid , but telling him that would simply add to his ammunition . |