Example sentences of "he [vb past] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he 'd have come home all black and dirty , and the coal he made would have covered everything with soot |
| 2 | Marxism and racialism are ‘ rather modern ’ , as Waugh would have put it , mindful that the medieval schoolmen and Renaissance Jesuits he idolised would have seen no merit in either of them . |
| 3 | He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker , so that anybody he passed would take him for such . |
| 4 | Then he wrote down what he expected would happen in the ensuing month with respect to each key task and what he was going to do about it , asked questions about policy , and commented on long-term opportunities , threats , and needs . |
| 5 | My right hon. and learned Friend said that many of the new responsibilities that he announced would lie with the TECs . |
| 6 | ‘ The women he assaulted would think no one would believe their word against that of a respected doctor . |
| 7 | And this had implications for their motion : Because God is immutable , the bodies He created would remain in the same condition unless they were subject to external causes . |
| 8 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 9 | Whilst painting Avery , Minton scarcely spoke , but as soon as he stopped would say , ‘ Let's go for a drink . ’ |
| 10 | He would meet American women of all kinds whose faces he imagined would reflect mixed nationalities , and he would tell them he was an actor who had performed before the Queen . |
| 11 | Is it not clear that the so-called social measures that he rejected would have led to unemployment and the loss of jobs ? |
| 12 | Scargill argued for national unity within the ( federal ) union , against the growing call for local wage and conditions bargaining — which he believed would favour some fields but be the harbinger of closure for others . |
| 13 | This he believed would meet the political need without incurring the cost of building up a new fleet of surface ships and perpetrating the military nonsense of mixed manning . |
| 14 | In January 1918 President Wilson issued his peace proposals , the 14 Points ( CORE , p. 20 ) , which he believed would ensure a great and lasting peace . |
| 15 | Drama of the kitchen sink kind he believed would go down well with the Middlesbrough crowd who regularly call South Bank Albion their own . |
| 16 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
| 17 | Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism . |
| 18 | We were referred by Mr. Lassman to certain commentaries in Current Law Statutes ( 6 ) –12 ( 1990 ) 18/2 and also in Blackstone 's Criminal Practice , 2nd ed. ( 1992 ) , p. 639 which , when he began referring to them , he believed would afford some assistance to his argument . |
| 19 | The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power . |
| 20 | This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her . |
| 21 | THE son of millionaire fraudster Robert Maxwell tried to ban a charity children 's book which he claimed would set a jury against him . |
| 22 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 23 | In two years Gould could not possibly hope to cover all the areas he guessed would prove rewarding . |
| 24 | Gamsakhurdia , 51 , had promised to start immediately to implement transitional measures towards independence , which he predicted would take around five years to realise . |
| 25 | And he never had the means to maintain the lifestyle he decided would provide his entry into the society he craved to belong to . |
| 26 | In 1927 he made a triumphant visit there , and convinced himself that the large-scale dramatic compositions he favoured would suit the Soviet vision . |
| 27 | Soon Endill had found a room that he thought would do for his workshop . |
| 28 | The expert refused to do what the lessors wanted him to do , namely to rewrite his certificate in a way which he thought would make the certificate conclusive against the lessees ' interests . |
| 29 | The architect then showed on paper what he thought would meet those needs , with both of them relying on the practical knowledge and experience of the builder to know how the works would have to be carried out . |
| 30 | In an effort to make the mathematics curriculum more practically-based , the new headteacher introduced a commercial maths scheme which he thought would improve teachers ' classroom practice by shifting the emphasis away from whole-class ‘ chalk and talk ’ lessons and towards more individual and group work . |