Example sentences of "[noun sg] he would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers . |
| 2 | If he were a poet he would write a poem to that glimpse of bare ankle . |
| 3 | When we was about fourteen in the fourth year at school , there was this quite chubby bloke he 'd have a towel just there while you shower . |
| 4 | At any moment he would slide a spike between her ribs . |
| 5 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 6 | If the eagle could only reach there in safety he would have a chance of following almost continuous high ground to Scotland … |
| 7 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 8 | One day he would make a mistake , then she would have him . |
| 9 | Often he would shave it off , but the next day he would have a beard just the same . |
| 10 | They did , I mean the docker at that time of day he 'd take a gallon o beer into work with him . |
| 11 | Every month he 'd read a list — it was a list of names of young men , and some women , who 'd vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 12 | But the players were singing in it afterwards and Dowie managed to take a tenner off Bingham ; he had bet the manager he would score a goal . |
| 13 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 14 | I certainly welcome any statement made by any Israeli politician to the effect that if in government he would put a freeze on the settlement policy . |
| 15 | The exercise had its practical value , but he recognized that , in some obscure way , it fulfilled a psychological need , just as in boyhood he would explore a country church by first walking slowly round it before , with a frisson of awe and excitement , pushing open the door and beginning his planned progress of discovery to the central mystery . |
| 16 | He decided that on the way he would take a look at the nearby clump of trees from which the eerie sounds had drifted during the night . |
| 17 | Stubbornness was an early characteristic , as was the way he would call a halt to any admonishment laid down by Mud . |
| 18 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 19 | In time he would seek a solution to this problem by envisaging a brotherhood of painters living self-sufficiently , away from the worldliness of towns and thus uncontaminated by modern fevers and distractions . |
| 20 | In fact he would have a selling job to do , but could hardly ask Jim Cavalier for a few hints . |