Example sentences of "he would tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would meet American women of all kinds whose faces he imagined would reflect mixed nationalities , and he would tell them he was an actor who had performed before the Queen . |
| 2 | ‘ If there was anything that caught his ear , he would tell everyone to be quiet and listen , and then fling himself about to the music . |
| 3 | If she could n't take hints he would tell her he had somebody else . |
| 4 | After the first exchange of letters , he would tell Viola about it to impress her of his need and , indeed , his right to her . |
| 5 | ‘ Life is one big experiment , ’ he would tell his class . |
| 6 | He would tell no-one of his plan until the big day . |
| 7 | ‘ My , that 's a lovely head you 've got there , ’ he would tell every pupil . |
| 8 | A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’ |
| 9 | Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do . |
| 10 | Tina had felt let down , but knowing Bobby , he would tell them in his own good time what had happened . |
| 11 | He would tell friends that , if , after he had taken the Civil Service Competition in 1946 , he had been offered the Treasury instead of the Ministry of Civil Aviation , he would have stayed in Whitehall and eschewed a political career . |
| 12 | He would tell a player , ‘ Never mind what the other team does — this is what you are going to do . ’ |
| 13 | He told me not to open my mouth to either of you and Una until such time when he would tell all three of you himself . |
| 14 | Occasionally , he would tell my mother something about events at school , and if he realised that one of us had overheard it , he would say , ‘ You 're deaf ! ’ |
| 15 | He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood . |
| 16 | If he was half-way well he would tell this bitch , boot her out the door . |
| 17 | Sooner or later he 'd known that he would tell the truth . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're going ti 'ave a job ti rear yon lad , ’ he would tell Annie upon arriving home , and this was the thought that crossed his mind now . |
| 19 | ‘ One day , he would tell me , I would be in the record books and so I should remain ageless . |
| 20 | ‘ Bill Curtin , as he would tell you within minutes of making your acquaintance , was founder and head of the largest British firm of consulting engineers outside London . |
| 21 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 22 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 23 | I had a feeling he would tell the cast of his next film , ‘ I had Kenny More in my last film . ’ |
| 24 | He was sorry that he had brought up the subject and hastily departed for his shower , shouting that he would tell her while he was dressing . |
| 25 | The young man said he would tell her when to get off and then busied himself with an oilcan among the driving wheels . |
| 26 | She knew why he had come and what he would tell her , and she did n't want to hear it . |
| 27 | Socialist Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy said he would tell EC partners that France opposed the Gatt deal . |
| 28 | The bird must always come first , he would tell us over and over again . |
| 29 | Tomorrow he would tell his wife to put out a shirt of softer cotton . |
| 30 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |