Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the headman passed on the hookah stem and stood up , saying he 'd go and fetch the soothsayer . |
| 2 | You do n't think he 'd try and do a runner like the kitchen man , do you ? ’ |
| 3 | Do n't worry about money he 's alright , no he 's said he 'd come and have a look if he sees , he 's gon na have a look at it first , see what he thinks . |
| 4 | Generally the offence is straightforward as outlined but if an unlicensed pillion passenger on a motor bicycle persuaded the rider to take off his ‘ L ’ plates or the passenger took them off himself he would aid and abet the rider 's offence of no ‘ L ’ plates . |
| 5 | Every now and again , when he was writing , he would stop and lift the lid to gaze at Viola lounging in classic embroidered silks against the background of Hong Kong . |
| 6 | In a minute he would go and run a hot bath , luxuriate in it for ten minutes or so , and then get his head down . |
| 7 | Trevor Spanswick walked into the Centurion pub in Overfields , Middlesbrough , to talk to a friend five days after the ban but when landlord Eric Curren told him to leave he threatened he would go and get a hammer . |
| 8 | He would go and see the headmaster as soon as they got back . |
| 9 | As he had no children , how could anyone say what kind of a father he would make until given a chance to prove it himself ? |
| 10 | He would turn and leave the purple streams puddling among the rest of the garbage from other houses , carrying the empty pot thereafter with nonchalance . |
| 11 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 12 | Each morning he would rise and make the fire to warm the house and , when the rest of the family came downstairs , we would find him in his armchair , elbows propped on spread knees and braces straining against vested shoulders as they heaved with suppressed coughing . |
| 13 | Maurice had been quite decent , seemed quite upset to see her go , swore he would try and get a divorce , but the old cow would sooner die , you could tell from her photograph . |