Example sentences of "he [vb past] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Henceforward Wolf pursued two objectives , both within the leading institutions of the Anglo-Jewish community and as a journalist — thwarting political Zionism , which he thought would place Jews in a situation of conflicting loyalties , and calling attention to the denial of human rights to Jews , particularly in Russia and Romania . |
| 32 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 33 | Ted replied with an obscurity he thought would delight Dad . |
| 34 | David Greenland , of North Terrace , Gainford , said Sturdy , whom he knew from school , offered him a deal which he thought would boost trade and which he could terminate if he wanted to . |
| 35 | Though he declined to say who he thought would win tomorrow , one gets the impression that he will be in Scotland 's corner , remembering that if they do win they will head for Twickenham and possible Triple Crown glory . |
| 36 | It was curiously sexual this feeling , exactly the way he had once or twice felt with a girl he was mad to make love to and who he thought would let him but was not quite sure , not absolutely sure . |
| 37 | An observer moving out from the origin would find that initially the area of the spherical surface he reached would grow steadily with s until he had travelled a distance . |
| 38 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 39 | The pope envisaged that whomsoever he sent would eradicate all that required uprooting throughout ‘ your island ’ — that is , Britain — and such wide jurisdiction at this time belonged only to Canterbury . |
| 40 | he knew would lead to a vast network of subterranean flames , |
| 41 | It was the not knowing which perturbed him most and led him to take an action which he knew would lead to his inevitable and somewhat painful death . |
| 42 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 43 | Calm balmed him : a sense of peace which he knew would encompass him on a return from a devout , loyal , and sensible killing in the future . |
| 44 | The affirmative he knew would follow would help him in the discussion this evening with the Prince of Wales . |
| 45 | Avoiding the recriminations which he knew would ensue should he inform Willy of his decision , Boulestin slipped away from Paris while his employer was absent . |
| 46 | that he injected Royan with a substance he knew would harm him , in the presence of the press , and failed to given him adequate medical attention . |
| 47 | Indeed he had not tried to disguise in his Middle East diaries what he knew would happen to the soldiers . |
| 48 | Bérégovoy had let the budget deficit rise alarmingly rather than raise taxes , which he feared would have cut both demand and the Socialists ' vote . |
| 49 | Granting such an appeal he felt would have endangered respect for the law . |
| 50 | He 'd wanted to drive until anything he remembered would seem as if it had happened to someone else . |
| 51 | What he did would have looked classy even in today 's harder , faster game of thirty odd years later . |
| 52 | Whatever he did would have gone down well with Quigley . |
| 53 | Whatever he did would play into the hands of Isambard , whose traps were always dual , and could not be evaded . |
| 54 | He was in a far better position financially to help her than her own parents who had a lot of children and responsibilities , whereas he had no children and everything he had would go to her . |
| 55 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 56 | A few years later he discovered , to his fury , that the painters ' prices had soared and the paintings that he despised would have been immensely valuable . |
| 57 | I said that soon he would be in the Air Force and no longer a financial burden on Elfed , and , even more than that , when the war was over he would be a wage-earner at something or other , and would be able to help Elfed and Cis ; what was more , Elfed would be already well aware that the liability he resented would become an asset he welcomed . |
| 58 | In his Commons statement , Mr Hurd was forced to apologise for legal advice given to the House on January 20 and 27 January by the Foreign Office minister , Tristan Garel-Jones , on the Labour amendment , which he said would mean the treaty could not be ratified . |
| 59 | Addressing an APL central committee plenum on Jan. 25 , Alia proposed political and economic reforms which he said would contribute to the " further strengthening of the internal situation and stability " . |
| 60 | In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people . |