Example sentences of "that he would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 2 | Barker was a natural showman , promoting Henry VIII with the declaration that he would burn all the prints of the film within six weeks , and his own sense of the significance of what he had done is echoed in Rachael Low 's description of this as ‘ the first really important feature film . ’ |
| 3 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 4 | He then shouted that he would burn the place down . ’ |
| 5 | I wanted to overwhelm the senator with so many difficulties that he would abandon the idea , but instead I was the one who was weakening . |
| 6 | Once you were Wigg 's enemy — and this was a judgement reached by him and not by the other person — there was no pursuit and no hostility that he would abandon ; but I remained an affectionate friend because of the other side of his character , which would not even be suspected by those with whom he was in controversy . |
| 7 | Although she had no experience of drunks , a sixth sense convinced Constance that he would sleep all night . |
| 8 | I replied with caution and a slightly playful evasion that I understood that he would decide that , to which he replied that naturally he would like to take into account any hopes of mine . |
| 9 | The expectation that God would reward the righteous in this world ran parallel to the less attractive expectation that He would punish the unrighteous . |
| 10 | When Rodrigo saw the letters of his Lord the King , he greatly rejoiced in them , and said to the messengers that he would fulfil the King 's pleasure , and go incontinently to his command . |
| 11 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 12 | The warning by a deranged Muslim guerrilla that he would blow up the Visegrad hydroelectric dam unless Serb militiamen ceased their artillery attacks on Visegrad and Foca was not the only liquid that threatened to flood Bosnia-Hercegovina this week . |
| 13 | The chances that he would blow everything are too high to risk . ’ |
| 14 | The accused said that he would blow the victim 's brains out if he was not quiet . |
| 15 | We 've both become victims of Private Eye and I know that he would laugh at some of the things they 've said about me , and I 'd do the same to him . |
| 16 | The trustees of the settlement lend £100,000 to X with X having agreed with the settlor that he would lend the £100,000 on to the settlor . |
| 17 | The pursuer 's son , who was present at the meeting , said that he would instruct Messrs Ferguson & Forster to submit a formal offer to the defender 's solicitors , Messrs Macfie & Alexander . |
| 18 | Rowell , though , is hugely loyal to his Bath players and there has always been a worry that he would promote Bath men without due regard for the balance of the side , as Ron Waldron did with such disastrous results for Wales . |
| 19 | Sooner or later he 'd known that he would tell the truth . |
| 20 | He was sorry that he had brought up the subject and hastily departed for his shower , shouting that he would tell her while he was dressing . |
| 21 | He had promised Comfort that he would tell no one about the woman who had spat at her and called her filthy names . |
| 22 | After the election , the bosses allowed Mr Kaifu to continue as prime minister on the strict understanding that he would hand over to a heavyweight like the former foreign minister , Mr Shintaro Abe , when the going got rough . |
| 23 | Prince Sihanouk announced that he would hand over his power of final decision in the SNC to the UN Secretary-General 's representative in cases when he was absent or unwilling to make a decision . |
| 24 | In his rage he declared war on the whole animal tribe , swearing that he would exterminate the lot of them , and recapture his daughter at the same time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 27 | Mr Peter Brooke 's patience and good nature commanded widespread admiration , but few sensible observers ever felt much hope that he would succeed in reconciling irreconcilables around the negotiating table . |
| 28 | Abe was a prominent candidate for the leadership in October 1987 , but eventually withdrew in favour of Noboru Takeshita , in what was widely believed to have been an agreement that he would succeed Takeshita after his two-year term . |
| 29 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 30 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |