Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually I forgot about it or else I would 've ma I would 've got him a card . |
| 2 | He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself . |
| 3 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
| 4 | I would like to show him a folder overflowing with letters from visitors to Llangoed Hall , praising the warmth and professionalism of the staff . |
| 5 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 6 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 7 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 8 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 9 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have cost him a fortune . |
| 11 | Presumably , the estate agent would have given him a lift somewhere . |
| 12 | ‘ Even before you pointed out his similarity to Clinton , I would have given him a reasonable rating . |
| 13 | I mean , I would have given him a good kick if I 'd do stood along side of him ! |
| 14 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 15 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 16 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 17 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 18 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 19 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 20 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 21 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 22 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |
| 23 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 24 | He did not know that Isambard , unsure of the numbers with which he had to deal , and always thorough , had brought forty men to sustain the assault against his dozen ; and even if he had known it would have brought him no comfort . |
| 25 | He was perhaps a little too intelligent for the daily grind of professional golf , without having that last cutting edge of brilliance which would have brought him an Open Championship . |
| 26 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 27 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special . |
| 29 | If she had seen the man I loved she would have thought him a figure of fantasy too . |
| 30 | He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain . |