Example sentences of "and he would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and him 'd sit and eat from half past six |
| 2 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
| 3 | Fernando loved her and he would lead the way , make the decision for her . |
| 4 | And he would bring back goods from the market , such as meal , and sell or exchange that for what the Dalesfolk had brought . |
| 5 | They and the coffin were safely back — the coffin in the Volvo , its outline well disguised by an old car cover , and he would bring it round after dark the next evening . |
| 6 | They vented their frustrations on him , and he would protest : " I 'm only doing my job . " |
| 7 | Somewhere there were the right words and he would speak them . |
| 8 | Mr Mulroney said the leadership convention will take place in mid-June and he would hand over soon after . |
| 9 | And he would set to work to cover reams of paper with still lifes , boats , fishermen , figures , birds and clouds , completing a sixty-foot decoration in one day . |
| 10 | He had been appointed to manage the Laboratory and he would manage it in his own style . |
| 11 | Luckily the lad spoke a little English , telling Harry to cycle on and he would overtake for Harry to follow at a distance . |
| 12 | The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road . |
| 13 | A tower over ten feet tall took only thirty seconds , and he would leave a trail of them around the passageways in his more creative moods . |
| 14 | Er and one of them may decide that he was going to another job anyway , you know , and he would leave and somebody else would be brought in and what have you . |
| 15 | Weeks would go by and he would leave me alone and then it would happen a lot . |
| 16 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 17 | He said to get changed and he would show me how to lay the table for dinner as guests were being entertained that night . |
| 18 | And he would show me a picture of a large white vessel sailing through a beautifully blue sea on a sunny day , with a glamorous crew smiling happily as they lay gracefully about the deck . |
| 19 | He needed a place of quiet , a good library , and a chapel where the worship was Anglo-Catholic and he would feel at home . |
| 20 | Her mother would be cross and he would feel stupid . |
| 21 | But sooner or later Mrs Longhill must write to her father and he would feel obliged to speak to Ruth 's family . |
| 22 | Having discarded his gun it was awkward having nothing to occupy his hands , and he would feel even more foolish sitting like a dummy just watching a man he was supposed to shoot eating his lunch . |
| 23 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 24 | And he would walk away muttering the names Endill and Edward over and over to himself . |
| 25 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
| 26 | He then proposed his new plan : that his mother should go back home , and he would continue on to Paris when the weather improved , together with Wendling , Ramm and the bassoonist Ritter . |
| 27 | He also stressed his belief that ‘ people should have the right to express their views through the ballot box , and he would continue to look for a way to give people the chance to exercise their democratic rights , ’ the department 's spokesman said . |
| 28 | And he would expect it to get him off the hook . |
| 29 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |
| 30 | Then he would remember he was being watched by Morris , and he would frown , and stuff his finger into his left ear to keep out the noise of the typewriter . |