Example sentences of "[adv] he would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he did not know how long he would have to wait to do so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They laughed , wondering how long he 'd take to change his mind . |
| 10 | I wondered how long he 'd take to get used to it , to become , in other words , corrupt . |
| 11 | If only he would stop staring at her and winking at her and getting in her way about the house so that she had to brush past him ! |
| 12 | Before the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) gets on his high horse , perhaps he would care to consider the devastating consequences for his constituents — and any constituents involved in the manufacturing of submarines — as a result of the collapse of submarine orders . |
| 13 | Perhaps he would care to tell the House the status of cancellation clauses , what the penalties would be and what that would mean for a future Government — Conservative or Labour — who decided to cancel . |
| 14 | Perhaps he would refuse to come . |
| 15 | Perhaps he would like to put his hon. Friend right in regard to the question of bias at the college . |
| 16 | ‘ Be that as it may , perhaps he would like to know that you have completely disrupted our meal . |
| 17 | One day , when he was feeling a little stronger and thought perhaps he would try to start another letter , Mrs Avery appeared at his door . |
| 18 | He reasoned that perhaps he would have to put fresh sensation between these echoes and their origins ; fuck them out ; sweat himself clean . |
| 19 | Proud ; embarrassed , Like me , He smiled , perhaps he would have to go and get a ladder ; rescue her , The idea amused him . |
| 20 | Perhaps he would have gone to his Member of Parliament . |
| 21 | Perhaps he would have fared better if he pleaded one of the defences in section 24 ( see paragraphs 16–22 to 16–25 below ) . |
| 22 | Former Tory party chairman Cecil Parkinson was on the trail of the floating voter but it was proving more difficult than perhaps he would have expected . |
| 23 | There are passages where Beethoven makes problems that perhaps he would have avoided if he had been able to hear . |
| 24 | If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan , perhaps he would have cried even more loudly . |
| 25 | Perhaps he 'd come to tell her he 'd changed his mind about his decision that she was to be his ‘ girlfriend ’ until Travis was over her , she mused , and , since courtesy cost nothing , she invited him in . |
| 26 | I am driving over from Merseyside , so if the lad from Warrington is reading this , perhaps he 'd like to cadge a lift . |
| 27 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 28 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 29 | Obviously he would promise to make it worth your while . |
| 30 | It would solve his problem nicely , or so he would have thought . ’ |