Example sentences of "he would [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining the decision , Lord Justice Hoffman said yesterday : ‘ We think it more likely he would choose to end the humiliation of his being and the distress of his family . ’ |
| 2 | Aiming high for a body shot , so he would avoid hitting the prostrate Grant , he squeezed the trigger . |
| 3 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh yes I know one man there now , well he 's so dumb he 'd rather go down the hold , than he would do marking the pencil and paper . |
| 7 | In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office . |
| 8 | Mr Alan Barton , director of finance for Northallerton health authority , said he would expect to get the details of the award next week . |
| 9 | However , he also suggested he would prefer to restrict the use of the concept of ‘ liminality ’ to those ritual periods in small-scale societies which all must pass through , and use the term ‘ liminoid ’ for those anti-structural periods personified by the ‘ counter-culture ’ of the 1960s ( 1978 : 287 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son . |
| 11 | Joe Shea , a Hollywood community activist who had criticised the Palladium 's security record , said he would prefer to see the landmark remain open . |
| 12 | He would prefer to see the work completed more quickly , otherwise whoever was responsible for operating services after privatisation ‘ is going to be running over a building site 400 miles long ’ for up to a decade . |
| 13 | The look Vitor shot her said he would prefer to discuss the matter in private . |
| 14 | When the psychologist Donald Griffin describes the ability of great tits and chickadees to obtain milk from bottles by ‘ pecking through their shiny coverings with the conscious intention of obtaining food ’ ( 1984 : 35 ) , it is obvious that were he not talking of a ‘ conscious intention ’ , in the normal human acceptation of the phrase , he would fail to arouse the average reader 's curiosity and sympathies . |
| 15 | In response , Cubby said he would continue to support the Dundee Club , the Easter Tournament and football in general . |
| 16 | Lawrence stressed he would continue to use the squad system in the promotion finale . |
| 17 | Some bishops , notably those who owed their promotions to James ( such as Thomas Cartwright of Chester and Samuel Parker of Oxford ) , supported the Indulgence , and encouraged their clergy to deliver addresses of thanks for that part of Declaration in which James promised he would continue to protect the Church of England . |
| 18 | Asked whether , having failed to get any positive results despite good funding , he would continue to investigate the paranormal , Phillips said , ‘ that 's up in the air . |
| 19 | He said he would continue to express the views put to him by his constituents ‘ without apology to anyone ’ . |
| 20 | At each ale house he would pause to sample the brew and give a speech promising shorter working hours , better pay , and free beer during his mayoralty . |
| 21 | Boyd had not promised to do this , though he had said he would go to see the principal to straighten out the question of his leaving . |
| 22 | He would want to distance himself and Ramsey in horror from any possibility of having harboured a murderer , but while the possibility still remained of profiting by a theft , holy or unholy , he would want to retain the appearance of valuing and believing in the thief . |
| 23 | He would want to know the ins and outs of it , to seek out the deep dark passages of her mind , the intricacies of her life as it had been before . |
| 24 | Jim Aiken said he would love to co-ordinate the contest , while Noel C Duggan , the entrepreneur dubbed ‘ Mr Millstreet ’ , said such a move would be ‘ terrific ’ for cross-border relations . |
| 25 | He said he would love to make the Man Utd game . |
| 26 | Next he would like to do the Mozart violin sonatas , he says , but he will wait until what he calls ‘ the Mozart frenzy ’ abates . |
| 27 | In principle he would like to do the movie , but you know how it is with agents . |
| 28 | Having seen United Biscuits ‘ gain a toehold in Brazil ’ , he would like to see the company expand into China . |
| 29 | Last night some Conservatives argued that government whips should demand that Mr Heseltine urge retreat on Sir Anthony , who has said he would like to see the former Defence Secretary and ardent pro-European lead the party . |
| 30 | Boy thought he would like to see the city under heavy snow ; then it would look like a real map , all in black and white , the river a thick black ribbon , or , if frozen as he knew it had once been , a clean white ribbon , the only space in the city without streets , names , lights or indeed owners . |