Example sentences of "[noun] he would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 2 | Dustin declared that he had accepted the part , not because of the screenplay nor the $425,000 he would receive , but as a favour to Peter Yates . |
| 3 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 4 | It had n't , and the horse he would have put money on had won by a length , and he was twelve-and-six out of pocket . |
| 5 | Mr Young said he has had to sell stock he would prefer to keep in order to take advantage of new opportunities . |
| 6 | One never quite knew which side he 'd show next . |
| 7 | Where one lot would be the hare he 'd start about ten minutes before . |
| 8 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 9 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's just the kind of reasoning he would apply . |
| 11 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 12 | Every spring he would hire a small bus to take the older children to the foothills of the Apennines . |
| 13 | Mr Fairley said : ‘ If he was in his bedroom he would have had to run past a gauntlet of flame . |
| 14 | I knew that , when we reported in September , if he expressed his adverse opinions to journalists he would dominate the headlines , and the Report might be irretrievably damaged . |
| 15 | In many absolutist states the myth that if only the Tsar or the Führer knew about the people 's grievances he would act to resolve them was carefully fostered by state propaganda and even more so in Romania by the Securitate 's rumour machine . |
| 16 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 17 | If he kept his nerve he would squeeze more money out of Bill Coleby . |
| 18 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 19 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 20 | It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers . |
| 21 | Not only , said Nicky , was this proof positive of the Englishness — indeed the Lancashireness — of Griffiths 's voice , but Griffiths had also said that if cornered in future he would shoot his way out rather than submit to arrest — exactly what he did do . |
| 22 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 23 | When Neil Jenkins was asked after his side 's quarter-final victory over Cardiff High School Old Boys ( also known as Cardiff Harlequins ) , which club he would like to see Pontypridd avoid in the semi-finals , he replied that he would like to miss out on Swansea and Llanelli . |
| 24 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 25 | In return for their addresses he would allow me to stop doing press-ups in the mud . |
| 26 | If he needed a sympathetic ear for his worries he would have probably got one from Alphonse Chapanis , director of the Communications Research Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland . |
| 27 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 28 | So the actor told the agent he would do brilliant bird impressions . |
| 29 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 30 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |