Example sentences of "he would [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Jesus , he 'd make them pay .
2 He 'd make her cry .
3 He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night .
4 He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night .
5 ‘ Simon reckoned he 'd adored you for years and that he intended to be that boyfriend , and he 'd make it happen by ensuring the two of you were together as much as possible .
6 He 'd see it raise slightly , but he could n't quite get it up .
7 And I remembered he 'd let me go out in the garden .
8 Oh , if only he 'd let me go with him ! ’
9 When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it
10 When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it
11 Even when he was n't there he 'd let me stay on .
12 And do you think he 'd let me have the children ?
13 As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up .
14 ‘ I looked down and thought he 'd let me fall too . ’
15 But er then there was erm a desk we had big stools and poor old was trying desperately to get me to add correctly you see , and he 'd he 'd let me add and then he 'd always find there was a mistake in it and he 'd try to tell me why .
16 and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er
17 She knew him too well to imagine he 'd let her get away easily , even when he learned there was money .
18 His hold on her had slackened slightly , but she did n't feel sure he 'd let her escape without an undignified fight , so she did n't push her luck .
19 Stopped me and told me he 'd let him go to St Francis Xavier 's .
20 He rather thought he 'd let him stew for a while ; with the murder investigation on , he could n't get far — or he 'd be a fool to try , and Peckham was no fool .
21 ‘ I 'm sure he 'd let us go on using the park if you wrote and told him it was n't us who left the litter lying about , Guider . ’
22 And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then .
23 So he 'd let it go .
24 And if you were lucky , and you got a good farmer , he 'd let you take one o what we call roasters , home .
25 If he did n't like you , he 'd let you know it — just like he did with the drama teacher .
26 He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it .
27 He would make them pay .
28 If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals .
29 Opening Poole 's letter on a visit to Bristol City Library , he began at once to write the first of two wildly intemperate replies : the country round Iron Acton was ‘ intolerably flat ’ ; Bristol contained no friends of his beyond Cottle and Estlin ( Wade was going away ) ; and as for the cottage , he would make it do .
30 Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself .
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