Example sentences of "he would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Richard von Weizsäcker described the events as " frightening and disgraceful " and announced that he would visit one of the affected hostels . |
| 2 | Furthermore he would instruct all the dealers in his charge to do the same , on the grounds that a joint effort would shift the share price , and that , besides , the company 's prospects were good anyway . |
| 3 | He would control this part of any assignment and would use our network of European offices to undertake field research and market interviews . |
| 4 | He would show that mathematics could be reduced to something even more simple , more general , more basic than had hitherto been supposed , to logical concepts , and , moreover , at the same time , he would be able to exhibit the internal logical structure of mathematics in a much more rigorous way . |
| 5 | I wish he would show some indignance , express some opinion , but there is nothing forthcoming . |
| 6 | Otherwise he would show more interest — Oh , God ! |
| 7 | Scarcely pausing for breath , Mr Gow declared that he would quote some Mill back at Mr Dalyell . |
| 8 | He told me that if he were to return to Bangladesh he would face certain assassination by the Government , which wishes to keep the situation in Chittagong secret . |
| 9 | The Institute could attempt to set up such a figure , but he would face considerable difficulties . |
| 10 | On March 26 the state prosecutor announced that charges of treason against Honecker would not be brought for lack of evidence but that he would face lesser charges of corruption and abuse of power . |
| 11 | He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The captain was only a human being , ’ she recalled , ‘ and it was inevitable that he would choose one woman rather than another . ’ |
| 14 | Tonight he would butcher one of his surveillance team . |
| 15 | After less than a half-hour of sitting alone he would grow restless , scatter his books untidily about the table and disappear outside . |
| 16 | Eventually I asked him how he had become a Christian and why he had believed , and then asked him how he would answer some of the questions that his visit to a French university was bound to raise . |
| 17 | On April 17 , however , Lester Bird stated that he would boycott further Cabinet meetings until his father agreed to a full judicial inquiry — armed with legal powers to subpoena witnesses and evidence — into the armaments affair . |
| 18 | He would wear private clothes and say that he was a merchant from the Northern Capital . |
| 19 | Instead , he would wear several sweaters and a dressing gown on top of his normal clothes . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 21 | He also had to show that he would suffer more harm if the interim remedy were not granted than the defendant would suffer if it was ( the ‘ balance of convenience ’ ) . |
| 22 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 23 | By the end of the six months , Edouard 's old resolve grew fiercer : he would restore that empire to its former glory , and then he would develop it , increase it , expand it . |
| 24 | Passing Scalpay , Johnson suggested to Boswell that they buy the island , ‘ found a good school ’ on it , and an episcopal church , ‘ and have a printing-press where he would print all the Erse that could be found ’ . |
| 25 | I saw he would feel better if I did , as if paying money would somehow excuse the act . |
| 26 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |
| 27 | Maybe he would feel better if he had something . |
| 28 | Almost as if without one or two eccentricities he would feel characterless . |
| 29 | Still , Mr Carnogursky said he would feel little bitterness when he shook hands with the man who symbolised the state apparatus . |
| 30 | Her mother would be cross and he would feel stupid . |