Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matisse had an arrangement with Miró whereby he would buy the latter 's works and put them on the market when the time seemed right . |
| 2 | Athelstan agreed ; the landlord of the Piebald Horse was a one-armed , reformed sea pirate who had confidentially explained to the friar how he would love to go to church but the smell of incense always made him feel ill . |
| 3 | Fierce flashing eyes , and how he would pace the floor and curse . |
| 4 | It enables the Commander to maintain a mental picture of the location of any team , and to think how he would react if an incident occurred to any one of them . |
| 5 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 6 | Meanwhile he had to tread very carefully , because if David suspected that his talk of cutting him out of the business was more than just talk , there was no telling how he would react . |
| 7 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 8 | She glanced at Spruce to see how he would react . |
| 9 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 10 | Theodora wondered for a moment how he would place her . |
| 11 | Numerous times before that period when GM got involved , he did n't know how he would make the payroll next week , much less next month . |
| 12 | She tried to imagine what Adam would expect her to do , how he would want her to handle herself . |
| 13 | Mr Smith did not say how he would meet manifesto commitments without extra borrowing or taxes if growth were not as strong as the Chancellor had forecast . |
| 14 | One such argument was in response to a question posed by Margaret Bourke-White , just prior to his assassination , as to how he would meet the atom bomb with non-violence . |
| 15 | She just did n't know how to approach him or how he would treat her . |
| 16 | I asked him how he would prefer to be addressed and he said you can call him what you please , as long as it is polite . |
| 17 | If Ms Twelves is an image of the past that Mr Kinnock wants London to forget , the Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson is how he would prefer Labour to look . |
| 18 | It came back , like a pain , temporarily dulled by drugs , in the terrible early hours in Emily 's bed where he lay , awake and fretful , scourged by his conscience or his sense of preservation , or whatever it was he had so recklessly ignored , tensed for another screaming fit and wondering how he would explain to Brenda that it was n't his fault . |
| 19 | Yet if there was the slightest chance of the offer being genuine , how he would leap at it ! |
| 20 | It was not at all certain , then , how he would fare against the younger breed of highly professionalized butlers looking for posts . |
| 21 | He talked of all that remained to be done , of how he would do it all , bit by bit ; said that first of all the attic should be examined , for so much rain soaking in must have affected the beams . |
| 22 | Quite how he would do that she was undecided when later she ran her bath prior to getting ready to go down to dinner . |
| 23 | She did n't know how he would do it but she felt sure he would . |
| 24 | After studying his agency 's current advertising he worked out alternative campaigns , demonstrating how he would handle them . |
| 25 | Swansea had n't won on Llanelli 's ground for five years but shrewd Ruddock had worked out a week earlier just how he would bring about the upset . |
| 26 | While watching the Moi trackers scurrying up the trees , he began to daydream of how he would return alone to compete with all the youths of her village in feats of strength and athleticism . |
| 27 | He had headaches , toothache , his anxiety about the coming week and how he would cope with it had given him a fever . |
| 28 | Kim stared back at him , making no response , wanting to see how Spatz would deal with his intransigence ; how he would cope with this direct assault on his authority . |
| 29 | I was very worried about how he would cope because of the different surfaces of the road . |
| 30 | a few times a week and I think it sounded like three cos she was wondering how he would cope with driving and everything . |