Example sentences of "[adv] he would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore he would instruct all the dealers in his charge to do the same , on the grounds that a joint effort would shift the share price , and that , besides , the company 's prospects were good anyway . |
| 2 | Suddenly he would come up with things that were very exciting . ’ |
| 3 | Muhammad Ali was like that , he 'd look weary and suddenly he 'd produce one big punch and his man would be gone . |
| 4 | One pal said : ‘ He loved her so much he would have done anything to protect her and he paid for that love with his life . ’ |
| 5 | Naturally he would stress the difference between phalanx and legion in a war between Macedonians and Romans ( 18.28 ) , but he would not present the war as a conflict between Macedonian monarchy and the Roman mixed constitution . |
| 6 | Then she quashed the thought ; naturally he would pretend to be surprised , to have no idea of what she was getting at . |
| 7 | Naturally he would assume that Richard was staying with her for the weekend . |
| 8 | I replied with caution and a slightly playful evasion that I understood that he would decide that , to which he replied that naturally he would like to take into account any hopes of mine . |
| 9 | Well naturally he 'd want to keep a boy , and your ma 's husband would n't have been too keen to have him around . ’ |
| 10 | Madeleine was his sole reason for wanting to return to England — although naturally he 'd love to see Alice if she happened to be in London . |
| 11 | Naturally he 'd like Giles to get married and produce an heir for his estate . ’ |
| 12 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 13 | Before long he would react even more extremely , exclaiming bitterly , ‘ There really are no more unbelieving and hard-hearted people than clergymen , and ’ — taking a vicious sideswipe at his mother — ‘ especially clergyman 's wives . ’ |
| 14 | All the scenes she made out of nothing were part of another , more insidious pleasure she was experiencing : she wanted to see how much punishment he would take , how long he would go on bowing his head . |
| 15 | When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " . |
| 16 | Duncan wondered how long he would last in London or New York traffic . |
| 17 | I wonder how long he would last in the emasculated Audit Commission about which the Labour party has talked . |
| 18 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | Now , when there was a strict limit to how long he would have to talk to her , it was convenient — perhaps even imperative — to do so unimpeded by a third party . |
| 20 | But he did not know how long he would have to wait to do so . |
| 21 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 22 | Before long he would find something better to do . |
| 23 | He seemed so weak that I wondered how long he would live . |
| 24 | I wondered how long he 'd take to get used to it , to become , in other words , corrupt . |
| 25 | They laughed , wondering how long he 'd take to change his mind . |
| 26 | If only he would talk to her … |
| 27 | She was being so ghastly and there was probably a very good reason for those locked rooms , if only he would tell her what they were . |
| 28 | He began to kiss her , and Dinah knew slight revulsion ; if only he would leave her alone for once ! |
| 29 | " She could have had any number of others , but no , only he would do . " |
| 30 | His work was n't bad , and I had the feeling that one day , if only he would persist , he might write a novel that would be published . |