Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway through dressing , wearing his shirt and underpants , he looked for Moda in the workroom , where he assumed she would have thrown it on their pile of magazines ; he wanted to gaze at Bella Kropotkin again , but he could n't find the magazine . |
| 2 | Although he said he would remain active in Polish politics , he left Poland for Canada on Dec. 12 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However the offices were closed so he said he would call first thing in the morning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As he spoke he deliberately failed to notice Nora 's increasing bewilderment and anxiety , until he thought she would burst . |
| 7 | He just ran away from it all , sobbing until he thought he would choke . |
| 8 | He started to sit up , seeking her face , but she was already moving down the bed , and moments later he felt her lips on his stomach , and then upon the head of his cock , which she took into her mouth by degrees , her tongue playing on it as she went , until he thought he would lose control . |
| 9 | The questions had chased each other round and round , finding terrible answers , until he knew he would start to scream if he did not shut them out . |
| 10 | Raucous , insane laughter that drummed in the agent 's ears until he feared he would go deaf . |
| 11 | Many of his radical moves , breaking the BBC down into business units instructed to make money or be closed and buying in services from the private sector if it is cheaper , are either in force or due to be so by the beginning of next month — so if he went they would continue anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ Dad used to threaten that if he misbehaved he would put our heads in the sink and turn the tap on , but he never did , ’ she says . |
| 13 | Yet he , the archer , might have gone back there to check again after all and if he had he would know I was alive , but he would never find me where I was now , deep in impenetrable shadow along a path he could n't follow in the dark . |
| 14 | The thought occurred to me that if he had it would mean our staying on at Claro , and I did n't want to go home anyway . |
| 15 | I asked him if he thought he would win any prizes ; he thought he would be lucky if he did . |
| 16 | If he thought she would stay one more minute in his house , to be insulted , mauled … |
| 17 | If he said he would defend the pound , you knew he would do it or bust . |
| 18 | If he moved they would see him ; if he stayed still they would find him . |
| 19 | She barely seemed to notice if he stroked her hair as they talked , but if he moved she would say quickly , ‘ Do n't go away , ’ and bring his hand back to her forehead . |
| 20 | He left the desk and strode to the machine , manipulating it himself , almost as if he suspected she would refuse to do so . |
| 21 | If he spoke he would say ‘ Dinner ’ . |
| 22 | I told Dad and suggested that if he called she would open up , but he said , ‘ No . |
| 23 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 24 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 25 | ‘ If he did it would make no difference . |
| 26 | I wonder if he hit the floor … if he did it would have been on his head . |
| 27 | But then he saw that he could not afford to believe her , because if he did he would allow her a tactical advantage , a small victory that should lead to greater ones . |
| 28 | But if he did he would see that it was in an old barn , and not at all legal , and then he would make her come home . |
| 29 | If he did she would break down completely and beg him to hold her , beg him not to leave her . |
| 30 | A silly little bitch she had been , pleading with him to let her live , and promising that if he did she would say nothing and leave Vienna at once , never to return . |