Example sentences of "[verb] he would [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 2 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 3 | ‘ I never believed he would n't make it . |
| 4 | ‘ I never believed he would n't make it . |
| 5 | Michael says it 's ‘ very decent ’ of them ; Nick says he would n't miss it for the world . |
| 6 | As he is a nobleman 's son , I know he would n't like me to accept a gift from anyone . |
| 7 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 8 | Mr Brooke side-stepped unionist calls for the introduction of selective internment , saying he would only use it in ‘ very particular circumstances ’ . |
| 9 | And then once I suppose he would n't make it in the house would he he would have it made and brought to the house . |
| 10 | As he gulped the warm champagne he swore he would never wear it again . |
| 11 | He swore he would never use it , but he wished it were better . |
| 12 | She might have known he would n't let it go so easily . |
| 13 | Yet , strangely , even as he approached I could tell he would not harm me . |
| 14 | He pushed harder today , knowing he would not hurt her . |
| 15 | ‘ I live in Market Street ’ I answered him sadly , knowing he would never find me again . |
| 16 | One suspects he would not make it were Islam a majority religion in Britain . |
| 17 | As he transferred the blade clumsily to his left hand , he knew he would n't make it . |
| 18 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 19 | With resignation she felt the colour steal into her face , and knew he would n't believe her even as she tried to explain that she had n't even seen the rings but had been absorbed by the ornaments . |
| 20 | But he knew he would not see them here — they were much further north and anyway he would know he was near them when the crows gave way to a different more sinister corvid-the hooded crows , the vicious crows whose kind had once nearly succeeded in killing Minch when she was trapped near Callanish . |
| 21 | That was why she knew he would always hate her . |
| 22 | She sensed his waiting for her confidence , but knew he would never pressure her into saying anything she would rather not . |
| 23 | Telling him would be a mistake , she knew that , just as surely as she knew he would never tell her what he really felt , but she knew . |
| 24 | But she knew he would only mock her , so with an effort she refrained . |
| 25 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 26 | He liked her quietness , her gentleness and he thought he would probably marry her one day . |
| 27 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
| 28 | It was just before the Battle of Alamein — Bletchley was providing Montgomery with vital intelligence — and , had I but known it , Leslie was , almost at that same moment , listening on the wireless to ‘ One Fine Day ’ , and suffering because he thought he would never see me again . |
| 29 | I thought he would always make me suffer , whatever happened . |
| 30 | And er the sparrow thought he would maybe make it back to the mainland now so the peedie fairy climbed on his back and the sparrow flew it back to the mainland . |