Example sentences of "he would [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted . |
| 2 | When de Raimes had exacted his revenge he would hand her over to his knight , who would complete her destruction . |
| 3 | He would punish it : he would strangle and wither it : he would beat it down … |
| 4 | He would knock you out when you went to the house , kill Barak , then dump you in an alley near the Cola Roundabout in western Beirut . |
| 5 | He would rule them out of necessity . |
| 6 | Fawcett said that this sounded very important and that if Pons sent it to him he would rush it through . |
| 7 | Mr Lang urged the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland and the SMMB to put together a submission showing how the OFT 's findings were flawed and said he would pass it on to the OFT and the president of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine . |
| 8 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 9 | I do not remember much about my father — just odd memories , like when he would lift me up on his horse and give me a ride . |
| 10 | Just as a kid he would lift me up on the m up on the er counter , you know and me I was born in and then we shifted to the bottom , you know that white house , I think it 's all offices now , in the the erm big gates of the cathedral . |
| 11 | Suddenly , he was gathering her against him , as though he would lift her up into his arms and carry her off . |
| 12 | He would talk it over with Charlie when he got in from work . |
| 13 | Endill was convinced he would wake everyone up . |
| 14 | The bird must always come first , he would tell us over and over again . |
| 15 | She 'd bring that home and er the men would all congregate then round the table at home , and he would pay them out . |
| 16 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 17 | He would drop it off at the police station when he was well enough . |
| 18 | If any gossip reached Red Leland I suspected he would shrug it off and forget it . |
| 19 | And , now she 'd burnt her boats so very finally , he would want it back . |
| 20 | He would drag it out for exercise every day . |
| 21 | When the weather was cold he would wrap himself up in a tabar , a big , black , woollen cloak . |
| 22 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 23 | Sometimes I managed to find stocks of surplus out-of-date doctor 's forms and he used these to type out rough drafts of his latest short story or chapters of his novel on his old Remington Portable — about the only thing he had n't sold — and occasionally he would bring one round for me to read . |
| 24 | They and the coffin were safely back — the coffin in the Volvo , its outline well disguised by an old car cover , and he would bring it round after dark the next evening . |
| 25 | He would bring us back ‘ on the deck ’ . ’ |
| 26 | He would sort it out , he said . |
| 27 | Lynn told me not to worry , that he would sort it out with Frank . |
| 28 | He always stored it behind the pipe and when Uncle Philip found it , he would throw it out onto the landing and jump up and down on it . |
| 29 | She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up . |
| 30 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |