Example sentences of "he would [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The elder , Maud , was married to the Count of Zeeland , while the younger , Blanche , had been married in 1359 to John of Gaunt in the expectation that he would eventually receive half the Lancaster inheritance .
2 They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease .
3 A man like Dr. Favor would know , and maybe he would even have some good connections .
4 Mr Cook said he would immediately cancel this month 's rise in prescription charges and introduce a parliamentary order exempting over-40s from eye test charges .
5 Observing them closely , I felt very sure that he would soon marry this fine lady .
6 If only Mr Brooke were to stick his head above the parapet he would soon realise that fact .
7 He would soon use these newly acquired talents in the play Jimmy Shine , but the only time in which he has attempted to sing on film were in his two biggest turkeys — Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me ? and Ishtar .
8 He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious .
9 He would also give those away , and I remember when my poor father died he brought down one , if not two , lovely lilies which Mother put in a slender silver vase .
10 The consumer might get cheaper CDs , but he would also get less choice .
11 Further , he would also require some very heavy and unwieldy equipment , including siege engines ; even these might not bring the desired success .
12 His toast in the morning tasted of bleach , his pint at the Rose tasted bleached , He would simply add more sugar .
13 Although he would probably think that very funny too .
14 If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult .
15 She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed .
16 When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground .
17 In later , more celebrated , times he would always acknowledge this as his first theatrical experience .
18 His son Alf , the skinhead , had said that he would personally strangle any Muslim he found messing with his wife , adding that if Tehran was such a great place why did n't the bastards go back there ?
19 He stated that he would only attend any further rounds of the normalization talks if a Japanese apology for the incident was forthcoming .
20 In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier , it was common knowledge that , although he would accept his chauffeuse 's six shillings , he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined , dined and accommodated in the same style as himself .
21 He would then take these on to Lima to leave with a friend for the next stage of his journey .
22 There was still the countryside , and he would never relinquish that .
23 He would never forget that .
24 He would never forget that time when a corporal had been machine-gunned in an ambush on a country road near Palermo .
25 His next film was very laid back and one , he admitted , which was the clearest-cut job of acting for the money he had ever done … and he vowed he would never do that again .
26 He would never do that again .
27 But he would never admit such a thing .
28 Luther knew that he might search long and hard , from one end of the earth to the other , but he would never find such an incredibly forthright and loyal employee .
29 Kolchinsky was used to the gentle ribbing he got from the operatives about his cost-cutting exercises but when it came to the crunch he would never put any of their lives at risk for the sake of the budget .
30 He would now discuss these with colleagues .
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