Example sentences of "he would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 4 | And England boss Graham Taylor has already warned that he would invoke the six-day release rule if the game is played this weekend . |
| 5 | He would distinguish the various forms in which meaning may be actualised from the underlying structures on which meaning rests . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then he would envelop the whole hand in his , clenching it into a clinching argument , a QED fist . |
| 8 | He did not hide and he said that he would do the same again . |
| 9 | First , through the City with a policeman holding up the traffic with an impassive countenance which implied that he would do the same for the Seventh Day Adventists , the Anti-Vivisection Society or the Paddington Communist Party . |
| 10 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 11 | Because he was a father and no longer young he confessed to himself that he would prefer the latter . |
| 12 | Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If only Cassan can get him safely through the speed leg , which so often plays a decisive part in the overall result , he looks as though he would relish the bigger obstacles expected for the second and third legs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He would never be a rival , he would remain the loyal servant of the Chairman . |
| 20 | In India the production of salt was a government monopoly : he announced that he would walk the 250 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea and break the law by making salt . |
| 21 | Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter on the sea breezes . |
| 22 | The expectation that God would reward the righteous in this world ran parallel to the less attractive expectation that He would punish the unrighteous . |
| 23 | He would give the French one more shot before retreating back to the crossroads . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He would tell the rudest stories out loud , when he knew that Joan Sims was within earshot . |
| 27 | That householder would not receive any discount ; he would pay the full charge . |
| 28 | Then he would announce the next passage , ending with one from what he called , in a tone lower than usual , ‘ Murder ’ . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |