Example sentences of "he would go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 2 | He would go up in the lift . |
| 3 | He would go up to his desk , work there shredding paper , come down and in no time rush up again to check on some figures and return bringing more paperwork with him . |
| 4 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 5 | ‘ He is remarkably well handicapped on 10st four , and if he were to be handicapped again he would go up another stone . |
| 6 | If he could earn some money for a railway ticket he would go straight off to Amsterdam and ‘ fathom ’ the deafening silence which was tormenting him . |
| 7 | Tall and strong , with very broad shoulders , he would go on to claim 202 victims at 25 from his 47 Tests , of which 50 came in a dozen games against England . |
| 8 | He would go on to look at the banks and their debtors , and find all the symptoms he needed to confirm a diagnosis of monetary anorexia . |
| 9 | He made funny faces to amuse her , and when she smiled at his antics he would go on to tickle her toes until she gurgled happily . |
| 10 | He would go on living on scraps like they did . |
| 11 | All the scenes she made out of nothing were part of another , more insidious pleasure she was experiencing : she wanted to see how much punishment he would take , how long he would go on bowing his head . |
| 12 | She hoped he would go on . |
| 13 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 14 | She would continue to define her ex-husband as diminishingly efficient , and he would go on seeing himself as an ill-equipped buffoon who had stumbled into six years of brazen luck . |
| 15 | He would go on thinking of her as a beautiful , hidden woman , with a striking flair for life lying in sulky disuse . |
| 16 | And in the meantime he would go on missing her unremittingly , and finding reminders of her everywhere . |
| 17 | I wanted him to stop but he would go on . |
| 18 | On sustained regional tours right through his seventies he would go on playing to smaller but no less loving audiences , having no desire for retirement or inactivity . |
| 19 | Whatever she 'd told him , he would go ahead . |
| 20 | He had been anxious in case white hairs got on the suit , which must mean that , wherever he decided to go , he would go somewhere . |
| 21 | Mr Healey said he would go round quoting that example to people . |
| 22 | It was like er cage as the basket fitted in and he would go round . |
| 23 | When everyone was in bed he would go round to every window , double-check if it was locked and then , before he came upstairs , place a few key obstacles in the path of any potential intruder . |
| 24 | No well it was n't the scheme he worked on , he would go round and sort your cooker or you know he was that , maintenance , the maintenance side . |
| 25 | If he would go around pinching other people 's food ! |
| 26 | Then he would go downstairs and would put on the kettle ; at 7.15 he would be ready to leave the house . |
| 27 | Lennox , despite his anti-English position , would find it intolerable to be a member of the Beaton faction ; within a few weeks , he would go over to the pro-English party , his hopes of his marriage to Margaret , daughter of Angus and Margaret Tudor , and of English recognition of him as heir-presumptive , should Arran break with England , weighing more with him than the desire for liberty and honour expressed in the July bond . |
| 28 | He and Aimar had engaged every routier chief who offered his services , fearing that he would go over to Henry II if they did n't . |
| 29 | She shrugged and stared unspeaking down the loch , and wished again that he would go away . |
| 30 | When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away . |