Example sentences of "[conj] he would [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he would return and inform Will Douglas . |
| 2 | She hoped that he would stop and kiss her , but he did n't . |
| 3 | He did n't tell her how they had beaten him with plastic tubes filled with sand so that he would hurt and bruise without breaking his bones . |
| 4 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 5 | Baldwin encouraged it to do so — by inviting an unacceptable resolution , by promoting a secret ballot , and letting it be known that he would resign if defeated . |
| 6 | The pilot radioed his plight but added that he would try and land anyway . |
| 7 | He applied four times for permanent posts in Cambridge , but was each time unsuccessful ; it was feared that he would alarm and discourage his pupils , particularly the weaker sort . |
| 8 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |
| 9 | I had a spare bedroom and eventually , we agreed that he would come and live in my flat as a lodger — which is what happened . |
| 10 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
| 11 | She remembered the smell as he tipped out the bag of manure he got from Tandy 's every now and then , and the way she would hold her nose and shout ‘ Pooh ! ’ , and he would laugh and call her Miss Dainty Socks . |
| 12 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 13 | And he would listen and try to talk up my confidence . |
| 14 | The teacher would haul him up and over , her angry voice taunting him , and he would try and remember that somewhere there was a mum who loved him and a dad who called him Tiger . |
| 15 | ‘ Will I give ye a jail crop , son ? ’ he usually said , and he would grin and wink at my Ma . |
| 16 | Nigel did n't appear to notice her lack of ardour , but went blithely on about having the house to himself for the weekend , so there was going to be a party , and he 'd come and fetch her — |
| 17 | It eventually reached the point when one of us would simply talk to him about anything and everything until he 'd break and say , ‘ OK , you want me to talk . |
| 18 | He treated her as if he would love and defend her under any circumstances . |
| 19 | However , so insistent was the man , saying his message was a matter of life or death , that Meredith 's mother finally agreed to go to his room to see if he would emerge and listen to what the messenger had to say . |
| 20 | Dustin asked if he could sleep at Beck 's apartment , and if he would come and pick him up at the hall . |
| 21 | As he was rushed to hospital , his devastated daughter Suzanne went ahead with the service — not knowing if he would live or die . |
| 22 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 23 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 24 | But before Modi could continue , Rivera shut his eyes , a sign that he was about to break into one of his fits , when he would erupt and turn white . |
| 25 | It ; s written as he would write or speak . |
| 26 | ( They say ) … and as he 'd rise or fall , |