Example sentences of "[conj] he would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentions a café where he would eat once a day . |
| 2 | However , a move to Besiktas , where he would earn big money , would prolong his Liverpool connection , for they are coached by ex-Reds midfielder Gordon Milne , who has been highly successful since joining the club . |
| 3 | After lunch he returned to his office where he would continue with his ordinary duties until the ritual of tea at four , when he would receive visitors . |
| 4 | Passing Scalpay , Johnson suggested to Boswell that they buy the island , ‘ found a good school ’ on it , and an episcopal church , ‘ and have a printing-press where he would print all the Erse that could be found ’ . |
| 5 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 6 | This monologue went on throughout dinner , after which he insisted that we all went across the road to the village hall where he would show us his slides of the Lake District . |
| 7 | He taught her history : the story of Pelopidas and Epaminondas ; he taught her geography , taking a shovel and pail of water into the garden , where he would build for her instructive peninsulas , islands , gulfs and promontories . |
| 8 | Domestic policy he tended , with a few exceptions such as social security ( where he would reprise his old refrain about the law of averages coming to the rescue of the millions ) , to regard largely as a matter of ‘ drains ’ . |
| 9 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 10 | He would lash out at her and afterwards hide himself away in some shady corner where he would sit , his head lowered to his knees , engulfed in a dangerous brooding mood that lingered until the day 's end . |
| 11 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 12 | Like other children , I watched him propel his chair up the chapel path , where he would wait in the porch till the beginning of the first hymn , then come just inside the door for the service . |
| 13 | He would pause only to take a meal in the dining-room , where he would sell his pens to visiting salesmen . |
| 14 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |
| 15 | He had some lovely tartan coloured rugs which I used to go and admire over at Clove Lodge , where he would take lodgings for the night . |
| 16 | Having loved Martha from the bottom of his heart , Sam now found that he loved his daughter every bit as much , and could hardly tear himself away from the cradle , where he would spend hours gazing at the fruit and blessing of the union . |
| 17 | After leaving University , Gore became a familiar site around Bath city centre , where he would spend his days entertaining tourists by juggling . |
| 18 | The graveyard , was Clary 's base , where he would establish himself , as he spoke with his fellow partners in life , about mindless things , which seemed funny , to what seemed low life citizens . |
| 19 | Rehearsals were held in Gedge 's bedroom where he would play a toy electric organ and everyone would take a turn drumming on a Smash tin lid . |
| 20 | It froze again that night and everybody guessed that by morning his twisted icy body with its pathetic malformation was lying at the bottom of some gulley , where he would have taken cover from the snow and the wind . |
| 21 | It is a cliché to say he died where he would have wanted to be , but true nonetheless . |
| 22 | Iago felt in his blood the coming of the climax , the moment when Owen had drawn them , with his body for bait , exactly where he would have them , with all eyes on him , and never an archer ready to string bow , or a lookout to shout an alarm . |
| 23 | She wondered what he would do now , and where he would live . |
| 24 | Tammuz led the way up to the second floor , where he 'd spread himself out through two labs , an office and a washroom . |
| 25 | We didn' find him , but we sure as hell found where he 'd bin . |
| 26 | Where he 'd last seen him . |
| 27 | ‘ He told them who he was and where he 'd come from , and they told him : ‘ Come back in an hour 's time and we 'll see . ’ |
| 28 | Where he 'd come from and where he was ensured one thing : like Garnett , Mercer , and Loach , Goodwin was a socialist . |
| 29 | He 'd been so lovely , and her shoulder still burned where he 'd put a hand on it after the game . |
| 30 | He said that the car must be ready by 25th July 1948 or he would refuse to take delivery after that date . |