Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] 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 | And England boss Graham Taylor has already warned that he would invoke the six-day release rule if the game is played this weekend . |
| 4 | He would distinguish the various forms in which meaning may be actualised from the underlying structures on which meaning rests . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then he would envelop the whole hand in his , clenching it into a clinching argument , a QED fist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He would never be a rival , he would remain the loyal servant of the Chairman . |
| 13 | The expectation that God would reward the righteous in this world ran parallel to the less attractive expectation that He would punish the unrighteous . |
| 14 | He would give the French one more shot before retreating back to the crossroads . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That householder would not receive any discount ; he would pay the full charge . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Greek prime minister , Mr Constantine Mitsotakis , looks downright incompetent : at first he said he would pardon the guilty men , then took that back and said he would merely release them . |
| 22 | Daio 's administration , he said , would remain in place until a new executive was appointed , but he indicated that if the PCD failed to elect a new leader promptly he would dissolve the National Assembly and call legislative elections . |
| 23 | Luke would know things about these places that the guide-books considered too unimportant to print ; he would bring the ancient stones to life — as he had in Bruges . |
| 24 | But his advice was not in doubt , only whether he would lead the independent appeal to the country . |
| 25 | In Paris in March , 1951 he assured Eisenhower , then Supreme Allied Commander in Western Europe , that with 12 extra infantry battalions plus the Vietnamese army which he was organizing and training , he would repel the anticipated Vietminh mass attack in September and go on to deal them a decisive blow . |
| 26 | Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts . |
| 27 | Probably Edward was respected in Hungary , which may say much for interest in the English monarchy , but the only certainty is his return thence to England , at his countrymen 's request , in 1057 , presumably because some hoped he would succeed the childless Edward the Confessor [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | Johnson had travelled hopefully and was about to arrive : the following day he would leave the comparative comfort he had hitherto enjoyed , and head into the wilds , and not in a coach but on horseback . |
| 29 | The former world heavyweight champion , 43 , who ended the fight with his face bloodied and battered , said he would leave the final decision on his retirement to his wife Joan . |
| 30 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |