Example sentences of "would [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly George was frightened that the man would think him mean . |
| 2 | Mungo was about to ask him why he called it that , but hesitated , certain that either Vic or Emily , or both , would think him over-inquisitive . |
| 3 | They would think him mad . |
| 4 | And although he signed a lucrative four-year contract with Wednesday last season , he would be aware that a move to United now would make him one of the game 's highest earners . |
| 5 | That would make him 75 — though he claims to be ‘ only ’ 72 , saying he lied about his age years ago so he could join the army . |
| 6 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |
| 7 | Of course , she might have another twenty years , which would make him seventy-four and what would there be left to speak of then ? |
| 8 | I mean , what would make him vulnerable ? |
| 9 | Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon . |
| 10 | Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November . |
| 11 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 12 | Her proposition had been simple and direct — if he were to work for her , she would make him wealthy and ensure him a place in society . |
| 13 | He had thought that living in Normandy would make him ambivalent towards his old enemy , but he had spent too many years fighting the Crapauds suddenly to relinquish the need to see them beaten . |
| 14 | A win for Kevin in his Skoda at Swansea tomorrow would make him favourite to become National Champion . |
| 15 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |
| 18 | Dr Dering declined this contemptible compensation , and risked crippling legal costs on a trial which he hoped would win him heavy damages . |
| 19 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 20 | If I had an Access card I would buy him this that and everything . |
| 21 | Instead , he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege . |
| 22 | Back on the road , they headed east in silence , Harry 's mind registering with calm intensity every mile and vista of their route , as if this process alone would bring him closer to what Heather had been thinking . |
| 23 | His new bride , a spinster in her thirties called Elizabeth Shaw , would bring him one further child before being left a widow . |
| 24 | He just quoted the verses , smiled , and said they would bring him great success . |
| 25 | He also knew that his grandmother 's death would bring him additional wealth . |
| 26 | Covering up for George would bring him little thanks . |
| 27 | Then Mozart would supply the publisher Hoffmeister with a series of compositions which would bring him enough revenue to repay the debt over two years . |
| 28 | Intelligence and savagery were the order of the day , though Fred Dellar remembers fondly that the most terrible of the enfants , Tony P and Julie B , would bring him cream cakes every week . |
| 29 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 30 | Although they had quarrelled so bitterly Mrs Gotobed had still loved Mr Evans , deep down in her heart , and the message she had asked Carrie to give him would show him this plain , . |