Example sentences of "he would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engineer would have headphones on while Keith was blasting away ; he 'd move the mic around until we found the right place , then he 'd bolt it in the stand where the speaker 's sweet spot was , and there it would stay . |
| 2 | I knew men old he was a chain smoker , he always used to smoke Woodbines and as one went out he 'd light the other one er ou on it , he would n't use matches , no he 'd , he 'd light one cigarette off the other . |
| 3 | ‘ Because there I was , ’ Mrs. Mounce ran on , as the blue haze of cigarette smoke thickened in the dusk , ‘ honestly , darling , without a stitch on , and this lunatic hammering on the door and shouting he 'd wake the whole hotel if I did n't open up … ’ |
| 4 | He 'd go the driving horses , they 'd probably go to Wickham market Monday do you see , the sale on the Monday they 'd go to Ipswich on the Tuesday er Wednesday they 'd go to Bury er and Ailsworth |
| 5 | Otherwise she felt certain he 'd dismiss the whole embarrassing situation with a careless sneer . |
| 6 | Of course he 'd join the RIC . |
| 7 | And sometimes , when there were visitors and raksi to drink , he 'd get the red bitch to sing — a mournful , wailing dirge that made us fall about with laughter . |
| 8 | He 'd get the whole yarn about the blackmail , perhaps even Laura Channing 's name or telephone number . |
| 9 | But by the time he was assessed as fit for open prison in Britain he 'd become the leading figure in Australia 's organised crime world … involved in drug smuggling … fraud and firearms offences |
| 10 | he 'd hit the right side of his head . |
| 11 | How glorious seemed the morrow , Auguste thought , when he could resume his holiday ; tomorrow , after supervising a light luncheon , he would escort the delectable Araminta to the band concert of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . |
| 12 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 13 | And England boss Graham Taylor has already warned that he would invoke the six-day release rule if the game is played this weekend . |
| 14 | He would distinguish the various forms in which meaning may be actualised from the underlying structures on which meaning rests . |
| 15 | It was reasonable to assume that , this time around he would stun the outside world with a similar manoeuvre , but this was not to be . |
| 16 | Then he would envelop the whole hand in his , clenching it into a clinching argument , a QED fist . |
| 17 | No such assurance was received , but the German troops advanced very rapidly , cawing some concern to Russia , so Stalin decided that he would prefer the German troops to stop halfway across Poland and he sent his — troops into that poor country from the east . |
| 18 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 19 | The Indianapolis 500 is one of those races with a special mystique about it and if you talked to Mario about that one victory , he would admit the sheer joy of victory , ‘ going from chump to champ ’ in three hours , he called it in his autobiography . |
| 20 | The party chairman , Godfrey M'Mwereria , an environmentalist and former lecturer at Kenyatta University , said he would contest the forthcoming presidential elections , as well as standing for the parliamentary seat of Tigania in Meru district . |
| 21 | The French recognized him as heir to their throne by a treaty of May 1420 , on the understanding that he would marry the French King 's daughter , Catherine . |
| 22 | He would never be a rival , he would remain the loyal servant of the Chairman . |
| 23 | The expectation that God would reward the righteous in this world ran parallel to the less attractive expectation that He would punish the unrighteous . |
| 24 | He would give the French one more shot before retreating back to the crossroads . |
| 25 | Obviously that did n't go down well with Lineker and he soon announced that he would quit the English game after the Championship finals . |
| 26 | The assumption that Lord Bridge included the original composite duty , incorporating the original section 69(1) duty in the private law category does not , however , in my judgment , justify the assumption that he would regard the composite duty incorporating the substituted section 69(1) duty as falling into the same category . |
| 27 | That householder would not receive any discount ; he would pay the full charge . |
| 28 | As expected , Clinton said he would sign the international biodiversity treaty endorsed last summer by more than 160 nations in Rio de Janeiro ( see Nature 362 , 577 ; 1993 ) . |
| 29 | During the 1990 election campaign he had promised on at least eight occasions that if victorious he would serve the entire term as Prime Minister . |
| 30 | He reaffirmed his support for a Palestinian state and called on the Israeli government to enter into direct negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , but also denounced the Arab economic boycott of Israel and said that he would press the European Communities ( EC ) to pass measures opposing it . |