Example sentences of "[noun] he would [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bits and pieces of things he 'd read and heard were coming together . |
| 2 | In a minute he would go and run a hot bath , luxuriate in it for ten minutes or so , and then get his head down . |
| 3 | As he had no children , how could anyone say what kind of a father he would make until given a chance to prove it himself ? |
| 4 | Each morning he would rise and make the fire to warm the house and , when the rest of the family came downstairs , we would find him in his armchair , elbows propped on spread knees and braces straining against vested shoulders as they heaved with suppressed coughing . |
| 5 | If it was something he had n't seen before , he 'd bend over it like it was a babby , and in half an hour he 'd know that machine inside out . ’ |
| 6 | Benn promised that the first thing he would do when returning home would be to go straight to see Michael Watson . |
| 7 | The only people what did have a motor in that , at that particular time was the harbourmaster of Pinn Mill cos they always used to call er er er one bloke down there who used to moor the ships up at Bottoman 's Bay and er th th th he used to get a retainer from the Ipswich Dock Commission and all he w all he had to do was make sure that was clear of , for shipping , if there was a yacht in the way he 'd go and tell them to move and he was what the we used to call him Pinn Mill Harbourmaster . |
| 8 | In the most dreadful weather he would stand and wait in a wet grove of ash and hazel for a shot at a woodcock . |