Example sentences of "he would [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Furthermore , he proclaimed that he would one day rule again over the Roman Empire , that he would vex dishonest priests , and that he would not cease from battle until the Holy Land was delivered into Christian hands . |
2 | After his arrest he threatened officers by drawing his finger across his neck to suggest he would one day kill them . |
3 | He confessed that he had ‘ missed playing Test cricket over the past couple of years ’ but had never lost the belief that he would one day play for his country again . |
4 | Ifor the idol he would one day have to dislodge . |
5 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
6 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
7 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |
8 | I suppose he 'd feel entitled to use a woman 's body for this purpose as he would any other . |
9 | He kept thinking of Jelka , and of the grandchildren he would some day have . |
10 | He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno . |
11 | It depends on an understanding by the man of the horse 's natural reactions , knowing that if he recognises the horse 's signals and makes the right moves , the horse will treat him — and trust him — as he would another horse . |
12 | He was almost certain that it belonged to Maidstone but he would newer leave half a glass of wine behind , surely . |