Example sentences of "he would [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding a joint of beef before him on an outstretched arm , he would wave his free hand over its surface in a gesture approaching a mystical rite , conferring upon the excellence of his merchandise a value far in excess of what the none-too-prosperous housewives of Reine hoped to pay . |
| 2 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 3 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 4 | From these amorphous and uncertain images he would create his own imaginings , superimposed and dominant , but essentially just as incomplete , just as distorted — as were the others by his own preconceptions , his own personality . |
| 5 | Terrified that he would guess her wanton reaction to the heart-stopping touch of his hand , Isabel jerked her head away . |
| 6 | Luke telephoned her early to tell her , tersely , what time he would fetch her that night , and although she put a frigid resentment into her voice Maria did n't demur , since it was in their public , professional capacities that the radio station 's personnel had been issued with complimentary tickets to the first Taiwanese appearance of a fairly famous American singer . |
| 7 | He would entertain his local Party members to lunch on Thursday at English 's , a sea-food restaurant which usually attracted the prominenti . |
| 8 | Franco , however , had already shown clearly that he wanted total victory and now indicated that he would contemplate nothing short of unconditional surrender . |
| 9 | He would watch their puzzled , attentive faces while Nonni talked about clothes and the latest film she had seen , ‘ jollying them up a bit ’ , as she called it : she thought that because their lives had been man-less , they were therefore dull and sad . |
| 10 | He would wear his black leather jacket at Elinor 's funeral . |
| 11 | Speaking after the DLP victory , Sandiford stated that he would devote his new term to " maintaining a sound economy " and suggested that he would also strive to accelerate progress towards the economic integration of the Caribbean . |
| 12 | Then he would don his man-made fibre flared trousers of airforce blue and a clean , ironed shirt and drive into the neighbouring town for the opening of the office . |
| 13 | If past events could be regarded more calmly he would handle her better . |
| 14 | He asked his players for their loyalty to him , in return for which he would do his best to improve their conditions . |
| 15 | Mr O'Neill , 40 , dealt carefully with each inquiry , gently assuring his interrogators that he would do his best . |
| 16 | But a spokesman for Fabius last week said that he would do his best to make sure that Mitterrand 's target of 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product to be spent on research by 1985 will be met . |
| 17 | The Attorney General said he would do his best to work on behalf of members . |
| 18 | At the moment he knew that he had no security to offer , but that was something he would do his damnedest to rectify as soon as possible . |
| 19 | He talked of all that remained to be done , of how he would do it all , bit by bit ; said that first of all the attic should be examined , for so much rain soaking in must have affected the beams . |
| 20 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 21 | Sometimes when there were a lot of us , he would open the church hall , and there , if things went wrong , he would exercise his sudden outbursts of temper even more ferociously . |
| 22 | Because her sleep was still disturbed and her consequent lack of energy was making her job and domestic chores more difficult , the therapist said he would advise her general practitioner to prescribe a mild hypnotic , but that this would be for a strictly limited period . |
| 23 | Perhaps soon , he would meet them both and ask that one question that he longed to ask : Why ? |
| 24 | This was widely regarded as a triumph for Levi , who received a guarantee that he would retain his present Cabinet position in any future Likud-led government , and a written assurance that his supporters would receive increased representation within Likud institutions , the government , Knesset ( parliament ) committees and the Jewish Agency . |
| 25 | Tsongas did not endorse either of the remaining candidates , and stated that he would retain his 430 hard-won delegates until the party convention in July . |
| 26 | Earlier in the year Mansell told me that Indycar racing fascinated him — and he would relish its new challenge . |
| 27 | Domestic policy he tended , with a few exceptions such as social security ( where he would reprise his old refrain about the law of averages coming to the rescue of the millions ) , to regard largely as a matter of ‘ drains ’ . |
| 28 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 29 | I wish he would give me some of that , I 'm flipping starved . |
| 30 | I wish he would give me some too , but I suppose he brought the bread just for the birds . |