Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When de Raimes had exacted his revenge he would hand her over to his knight , who would complete her destruction . |
| 2 | He said to get changed and he would show me how to lay the table for dinner as guests were being entertained that night . |
| 3 | He would punish it : he would strangle and wither it : he would beat it down … |
| 4 | His arms tightened as if he would absorb her completely , grinding her into himself in a desperate assuagement of an age-old hunger . |
| 5 | But his office issued a decree he had signed on Monday containing a strong warning to all regional government officials that he would hold them personally responsible for obeying his orders . |
| 6 | He thought he would remind him too much of his mother . ’ |
| 7 | He would do it tonight , Friday , just in time for the weekly trip to the supermarket . |
| 8 | He would do it tonight . |
| 9 | He would do it , and he would do it slowly , exquisitely . |
| 10 | Ever since the suicide business she had become afraid of him , really afraid , because he would do it again , he had said he would . |
| 11 | When the police asked if he would do it again Ninham admitted he would . |
| 12 | He would do it everywhere and it drove me insane . |
| 13 | Candy refused and the Italian had wandered off muttering that he would do it alone . |
| 14 | His mother was not interested ; Jean-Paul was not concerned : very well , then , he would do what had to be done , and he would do it alone . |
| 15 | Always he would advise me not to see people ; not to answer so-and-so 's letter ; not to take this admirer too seriously ; not to take Count X — as a lover . |
| 16 | He would knock you out when you went to the house , kill Barak , then dump you in an alley near the Cola Roundabout in western Beirut . |
| 17 | He would rule them out of necessity . |
| 18 | In describing the negotiations for Æthelred 's return from exile in 1014 , this says that the king was informed that no lord was dearer to them than their native lord , if he would govern them more justly ( rihtlicor ) than before , and that he then promised to remedy the things that they all hated . |
| 19 | Fawcett said that this sounded very important and that if Pons sent it to him he would rush it through . |
| 20 | He would drop her , of course , sooner or later — or rather , he would engineer it so that she dropped him . |
| 21 | Whereupon , records the historian of the Shipping Federation , " Havelock Wilson paid a visit to the Tyne and announced publicly that if " the Association was prepared to recognise the union he would register it forthwith " . |
| 22 | Then he became angry , and threatened that he would silence me forever , if I would not agree . |
| 23 | Viktor Rakovsky had made a sketch of the scene ; he would finish it later . |
| 24 | Mr Lang urged the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland and the SMMB to put together a submission showing how the OFT 's findings were flawed and said he would pass it on to the OFT and the president of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine . |
| 25 | If so he would give them all plenty to do off 10–11 . |
| 26 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 27 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 28 | I do not remember much about my father — just odd memories , like when he would lift me up on his horse and give me a ride . |
| 29 | Just as a kid he would lift me up on the m up on the er counter , you know and me I was born in and then we shifted to the bottom , you know that white house , I think it 's all offices now , in the the erm big gates of the cathedral . |
| 30 | Suddenly , he was gathering her against him , as though he would lift her up into his arms and carry her off . |