Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] he would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 2 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do not now deny that I hoped he would lead us to him . |
| 5 | I said his bed looked gorgeous and added , just in passing , that I hoped he 'd put up a wooden fence , as a metal one would n't do much for either garden . |
| 6 | Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward . |
| 7 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 8 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |
| 9 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 10 | Although he said he would remain active in Polish politics , he left Poland for Canada on Dec. 12 . |
| 11 | Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week . |
| 12 | At first he gave the somewhat fatuous explanation that he thought he would find it easier to ride his bicycle without his testicle ( the other testicle was small due to atrophy ) . |
| 13 | IN HIS speech to the House of Commons debate on the Draft Appropriation No 2 ( Northern Ireland ) Order , in July , DUP leader , the Rev. Ian Paisley welcomed the appointment of Sir John Wheeler as NIO Security Minister adding that he hoped he would bring the benefit of his experience in prisons to bear . |
| 14 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 15 | When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! |
| 16 | As for the race itself , Kinane added that he knew he would win some way from home and had enjoyed a trouble-free run throughout . |
| 17 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’ |
| 19 | As the recession deepened [ see below ] , the Hawke government began 1991 some 18 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls , raising questions concerning Hawke 's future as leader , particularly as Keating had let it be known at a National Press Club dinner in December that he believed he would make a better Prime Minister than Hawke . |
| 20 | Marcus said he would n't like it , and added that he supposed he 'd have to go sometime . |
| 21 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 22 | However the offices were closed so he said he would call first thing in the morning . |
| 23 | He was beginning to realize he did n't have popular appeal , so he thought he would try to mould his work into the sort of thing bought by a small book-buying elite . |
| 24 | That 's because I did n't have time to sit and colour with him so he decided he 'd do it all blue himself did n't you ? |
| 25 | I threatened to leave , so he promised he 'd change . |
| 26 | When he was enthusiastic about a subject , and I imagined he would turn his back on anything about which he could not enthuse , he leant forward on his bar stool , his thigh beating against it . |
| 27 | I , I mean it 's only by the good will of the police that we can get down there and that , , this is , this is my concern Mr Chairman , in , in theory what I would like , if there was a serious emergency , you 'd get a senior officer in here straight away , and I mean he would negate to the police , we have no authority over them , only cooperate with the police . |
| 28 | I could have resisted him until we were married , and I know he would have waited , but it was me who did n't want to wait . |
| 29 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think he slipped , Mowbray would have been too careful , and I doubt he would have let someone push him off the parapet walk without a struggle . ’ |