Example sentences of "he would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the church , me poor sister was near to swoonin' , our mum 'ad to give 'er smellin'-salts , with 'is reverend the vicar sayin' 'e 'd 'ave to cancel the ceremony . |
| 2 | 'E 'd come running from the back garden and we nearly bumped into each other coming round the corner of the 'ouse . |
| 3 | If my 'Arold 'ad 'eard 'im goin' on 'e would 'ave put 'is lights out . ’ |
| 4 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 5 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 6 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 7 | Selling him would help strengthen Souness 's financial hand . |
| 8 | And painting him would help to exorcise him . |
| 9 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I only did what anyone else who loved him would have done . |
| 11 | On the phone the other day you said that if only you and Dennis had had children then something of him would have survived . |
| 12 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 13 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 14 | But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money . |
| 15 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 16 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 17 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 18 | ‘ … that he 'd continue to pay your existing contract — ’ |
| 19 | Anyway , as soon as he found out what you were doing , he 'd manage to stop you . ’ |
| 20 | That awful thing that so many groups get themselves involved in , when they 're on a plane and they do a gig and they do n't even know what city they 're in , he 'd manage to avoid . |
| 21 | But I wish he 'd stop nicking my bleeding torch , he 's getting a swine for that . |
| 22 | She wished he 'd stop treating her almost as if he was happy to have her around again . |
| 23 | Because I think I would have thought he 'd stop doing that now , but Pam said he still runs down the bottom of the garden . |
| 24 | Blake was not averse to entering such places , but could think of a number of things he 'd prefer to do at this time . |
| 25 | He said he 'd prefer to visit the church alone anyway and that he 'd catch a bus back to Oxford when he was good and ready . |
| 26 | He 'd prefer to see low profits today and high quality tomorrow rather than high profits today and low quality tomorrow . |
| 27 | After those two leaks of privy information on radio programmes , one French and one British , he seems to feel he 'd prefer to handle it himself . |
| 28 | I told him I would call at the house this evening but he said he 'd prefer to come here . |
| 29 | He 'd prefer to keep his illusions about her , if illusions they were . |
| 30 | He said he was scared about all the girls he 'd miss going out with , stuck with one girl . |