Example sentences of "[adj] he would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have told Peter Davenport that if he was a bit greedier he would score a lot more goals . ’ |
| 2 | And if Punch were ever stuck he would get a cartoon of er one or other of the brothers sitting in parliament knitting . |
| 3 | Sentence on Ballantine , a first offender , was deferred until 12 March for background reports , but Sheriff Donald Booker Millburn said it was possible he would impose a jail sentence . |
| 4 | When the Laird said he preferred Paris , Johnson said there was ‘ not a Frenchman of letters now alive he would cross a sea to visit ’ . |
| 5 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 6 | Fabia felt it might be a touch cruel to laugh at him again but , feeling certain he would run a mile if she took him seriously , she was a little nonplussed about how to answer him . |