Example sentences of "would [vb infin] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so when Fael-Inis looked at him and said , ‘ It is something that is easily within your capabilities , good Calatin , ’ Calatin was very pleased , and said at once that he 'd do his best . |
| 2 | rung Keith and Keith said he did n't know whether he 'd be able to come today but he 'd do his best . |
| 3 | If I could get my hands on that Micky Danby now , I 'd break his sodding neck . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah I just swore at my father did well I said getting up at six o'clock in the morning every day and then go to work till six at night cos during the day I get tired so I use to lay down on his bunk then he 'd lift his little hat a way up and he 'd say er bloody fire 's out . |
| 5 | Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production . |
| 6 | I do wish he 'd command his 6 yard box more on crosses and corners tho |
| 7 | ledgers that are now on the archives could be l placed down there and fascinated me because he could add a column of pounds , shillings and pence , he 'd take his three fingers at the bottom of the long ledger column , and as fast practically like a computer , would add to the top and then put it in pencil . |
| 8 | But I wish he 'd civilize his living arrangements . |
| 9 | ‘ Harry said he 'd have his own stud farm one of these days — and Mr Harvey owns a stud farm and he 's a millionaire . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd admire his long , blond hair , his bright blue eyes and his perfect white teeth . |
| 11 | Well , she 'd ignore his pointed remark . |
| 12 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 13 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 14 | He knew he 'd get his own way , although he was careful to use only his right hand . |
| 15 | He 'd get his own back on them . |
| 16 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 17 | What had passed through his mind in the baggage-room at Royalbion House would remain his own personal secret . |
| 18 | The male red-winged blackbird attempts to attract as many females like this one , as possible to nest in his territory and , although the female would prefer his sole attention , she will share him with several other females if the territory is good enough . |
| 19 | The road , which is an important link in Rome 's traffic system , was constructed on orders of Mussolini in 1931–32 in the hope that this highway through the remains of classical Rome would enhance his fascist regime with echoes of Imperial grandeur . |
| 20 | Throughout the coalition , Law was prepared to support its continuation , but he was rarely prepared to argue for concession that would weaken his own party . |
| 21 | We knew Souness would want his own set of players and that he 'd shift people in and out very quickly just as he had in Scotland . |
| 22 | But manager Graeme Souness lifted the Anfield gloom by pledging John Barnes would make his first appearance in almost six months during tonight 's televised clash with QPR . |
| 23 | Mario Andretti , who won the 1978 world championship with the 79 , boasted that the new car , the 80 , would make his former charge look like a double-decker bus . |
| 24 | Had she judged the precise moment when he would make his chilling discovery ? |
| 25 | Padded to the eyebrows and looking like the Michelin Man , he would make his tentative way to the crease , usually at number 11 , and woe-betide the visiting fielder who held on to a catch put up by him or the bowler who failed to stifle an lbw appeal at birth . |
| 26 | Apparently not , Harley would make his own arrangements . |
| 27 | This time he would make his own choice . ’ |
| 28 | Zoff detailed the drama behind the scenes as Gazza was kept on tenterhooks for the past four days , wondering whether he would make his Italian debut . |
| 29 | Perhaps a new young star would make his insistent mark on the golfing heavens ; or , more likely , one of the top dozen or so established golfers would add to his bank balance . |
| 30 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |