Example sentences of "he would [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day he would open up a book — some new sword-and-sorcery trilogy , probably — and something he would read there would trigger what he knew was locked away in his own brain somewhere . |
| 2 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 3 | Another faction was led by the conservative former NSF secretary Velicu Redina , who declared that he would set up a new social democratic NSF . |
| 4 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 5 | The truth was , however , that he cast off the conversation as lightly as he would throw back a small fish . |
| 6 | Their change of mind came after the president 's aides had said that if denied a referendum he would carry out a non-binding plebiscite anyway to settle the power struggle that has paralysed his reform programme . |
| 7 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 8 | She hoped that when he stopped smoking he would fill out a little and his knees would be less likely to bruise hers in bed , but no . |
| 9 | I thought if he heard her nonsense directed at someone else he would get back a sense of proportion about it . |
| 10 | He would put on a white overall for the occasion , more to impress the customer than for hygienic reasons , then have a good look at the tooth . |
| 11 | He would seek out a place away from Men . |
| 12 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 13 | When you went into the shop to buy , he would take out a tray , give the toffee a tap with a small silver-plated hammer , put a fair size piece into the palm of his hand and tap away to produce chewable sized pieces . |