Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 2 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 3 | It would only confuse him to tell him the truth . |
| 4 | The viewers would just assume he 'd fallen into a cupboard and bang would go the impact of the scene . |
| 5 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 6 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |
| 7 | He is conscious that his wife would not want him to let slide everything she worked so hard to achieve . |
| 8 | While we would not want him to show his full negotiating hand at this stage , he gave us very little information . |
| 9 | MP Michael Clark would not confirm he had been threatened with the withdrawal of a Government trip to Canada if he did not vote with the Tories . |
| 10 | Peter had discovered that his five villages would not like him to have a working wife . |
| 11 | ‘ I would not say he has always told us all the truth , ’ said Cadfael mildly , ‘ if that 's a matter for his conscience . |
| 12 | Linton wrote a long letter back , explaining that his father would not allow him to do that . |
| 13 | Yeltsin said that he had promised to go with them , although he knew that the Russian Supreme Soviet would not allow him to do so . |
| 14 | In his hooded hand he felt a terrible clutching cramp that would not allow him to move his fingers . |
| 15 | He knew the Headmaster would not allow him to leave the school , not even in his good mood . |
| 16 | Of course he was the genuine article , a great champion whose pride would not allow him to give anything but his best . |
| 17 | She would not allow him to see her face . |
| 18 | But in addition , when they reached Lyons , the king 's messenger told Anselm that the king would not allow him to return to England unless he promised to observe the customs of the kingdom as they had been in the time of Rufus . |
| 19 | Satan was never wronged nor despised in Heaven ; the exaltation of the son was meant for the good of all the angels but he was so stupid his pride would not allow him to tolerate the unintentional insult . |
| 20 | Would not allow him to stop . |
| 21 | It would not allow him to go . |
| 22 | Augustus Melmotte , the rich entrepreneur hero of the book , feared his debts would not allow him to go on living anywhere , and killed himself . |
| 23 | He would have liked to join them as he was tired of being a lurking Briton but his sense of loyalty would not allow him to defect to the other side . |
| 24 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 25 | ‘ They said they would not allow him to come otherwise so here I am , ’ says Marci . |
| 26 | She would not allow him to spoil her evening ! |
| 27 | Where James might well have preferred to be a private man , it was quite clear that circumstances would not allow him to become one . |
| 28 | She would not allow him to sidle away into the night leaving her to kow-tow to an irate Spittals in the morning . |
| 29 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 30 | I would not have him survive this only to die of a broken heart . ’ |