Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd cost him nineteen thousand pounds . |
2 | ‘ I 'd give him some chocolate , ’ said Christopher earnestly . |
3 | And I give him three mo cos I 'd give him three months guarantee with that , I thought yes and I was standing there on the phone and I thought you dare come back ! |
4 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
5 | No I do n't like red , I 'd get him black |
6 | ‘ Aye , ’ said Jake , ‘ I swore I 'd get him one day — I strung 'im up yon old oak and lit a bonfire under 'im . ’ |
7 | Not that I 'd wish him ill , I mean |
8 | I would cheat him that way . |
9 | I begin to think that Mike Gatting may have lost it , but the Second Test is at Lord 's , his home ground and I would give him one more chance . |
10 | At times I would give him more sedation than other times because of the course of the illness . |
11 | I swore to my mother , when she was dying , that if I ever found my half-brother , I would do him all the harm I could . |
12 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |
13 | If I had an Access card I would buy him this that and everything . |
14 | It did in fact run out , and still Anselm had not received the pallium which would give him full authority as archbishop . |
15 | Which would give him seven thousand a year , rather than five . |
16 | Thomson said later of The Times , which would cost him millions , ‘ It is an honour to underwrite a national institution . ’ |
17 | Then Mozart would supply the publisher Hoffmeister with a series of compositions which would bring him enough revenue to repay the debt over two years . |
18 | Of course , she might have another twenty years , which would make him seventy-four and what would there be left to speak of then ? |
19 | It seemed a forlorn hope that any taxi-driver , especially with the limitation of petrol-rationing , should consider a fare which would take him seven miles out of the town on New Year 's Eve , but incredible luck was with us ! |
20 | The new mortgage would pay most of what I am in arrears with him you see so , which would keep him happy . |
21 | On the contrary , he was very much concerned with material things , sharing the contemporary view of his art as a craft , which would afford him material success as well as artistic fulfilment . |
22 | She 'd give him more , and when he 'd had enough she would say something to really provoke him . |
23 | For a moment it looked as if she 'd ask him more , she raised her face to his . |
24 | She left a message , said she 'd call him later , but she thought she probably would n't . |
25 | ‘ He mentioned a woman in the club — a ‘ lovely lady ’ who 'd put him wise to what you were doing . |
26 | The next time she saw him , she would give him such a tongue-lashing that his ears would ring for a week ! |
27 | He half hoped she would give him one of them by mistake so that he could make a scene , but she did n't . |
28 | Her proposition had been simple and direct — if he were to work for her , she would make him wealthy and ensure him a place in society . |
29 | Often she would leave him unkissed at the Rectory gate and forget to wave when she went inside the house . |
30 | Now he just wished she would leave him alone . |