Example sentences of "he would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would chase down green horses and harness-break them , then Mr. Mendez would buy what he wanted and Russell and two White Mountain Apaches who rode for him would deliver the horses to Delgado 's or one of the other relay stations on the way south to Benson . |
| 2 | Choosing him would soften the third-world grumble that the UN was becoming an American puppet . |
| 3 | Les , finally reunited with his beloved dog , was especially moved that no one who had helped to care for him would accept the £50 award . |
| 4 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 5 | Mobutu remained head of state , but Tshisekedi insisted that he would control the army and that no special area of power would be reserved for the President . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Fielding promised , he would hire the loft or the studio and line up the auditioning for the bit parts — the waiters , the dancers , the gangsters . |
| 7 | He would show the Catholic that the Church is nothing without the Word spoken in the crucifixion . |
| 8 | He would show the Protestant that the Church , with its order , and structure , and mission , is a necessary part of the Word spoken in the crucifixion . |
| 9 | With great relish he would recount the story of how he had surprised Branson one morning outside his house in Denbigh Terrace . |
| 10 | How glorious seemed the morrow , Auguste thought , when he could resume his holiday ; tomorrow , after supervising a light luncheon , he would escort the delectable Araminta to the band concert of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . |
| 11 | He would dress the part , even though he wore a cloak or hood . |
| 12 | Then Mr Vulcan returned from London as he said he would to arrange the funeral . |
| 13 | In the autumn of 1985 , Peter Walker , Secretary of State for Energy , had taken to making the following joke in after-lunch speeches : he would quote the Duke of Wellington 's reaction to his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister : ‘ An extraordinary affair . |
| 14 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 15 | He then shouted that he would burn the place down . ’ |
| 16 | She had half expected that he would deflect the question . |
| 17 | Fortunately other workers were near enough to restrain Uncle Fred before he had time to carry out his threat , with the result that a badly shaken farmer went off into the farmhouse , saying that he would fetch the police in the morning — no telephones in those days . |
| 18 | For Gandhi , religion is equivalent to helping the helpless , and given the choice between ‘ counting beads or turning the wheel ’ , he would choose the wheel if it meant alleviating poverty and starvation . |
| 19 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 20 | There was just a tiny blot on her happiness , and that was the knowledge that one day this man would want to settle down , and when he did she felt sure he would choose the companion of his last four years , the pretty Victoria . |
| 21 | He would answer the door and my job was to answer the phone . |
| 22 | And England boss Graham Taylor has already warned that he would invoke the six-day release rule if the game is played this weekend . |
| 23 | He may have agreed that if the goods were in existence he would acquire the ownership of them and if they were not in existence he would get nothing but that in either event he would pay the price . |
| 24 | He would distinguish the various forms in which meaning may be actualised from the underlying structures on which meaning rests . |
| 25 | He would watch the sun rise over the North Sea . |
| 26 | ‘ You must be joking , ’ a Russian friend said when I asked if he would watch the May Day parade on television . |
| 27 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 28 | On Saturday mornings he would watch the schoolboy games before turning out for his club , initially Dunedin and later St Kilda . |
| 29 | He would watch the movements of birds for hours through his binoculars without ever assuming that this activity could be interesting to other people , without ever promoting it as a topic of conversation . |
| 30 | It was reasonable to assume that , this time around he would stun the outside world with a similar manoeuvre , but this was not to be . |