Example sentences of "[coord] would [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd gone on saying it until people complained and the landlord was forced to tell him that such talk amounted to the spreading of gloom and despondency ; it was almost as bad as careless talk and would land him in the Bridewell if the police got to hear . |
| 3 | Such an event would represent the parting of the ways between Mr Gorbachev and the Slav masses , and would lead him almost inexorably down the road towards a full-scale assault on glasnost and civil liberties . |
| 4 | I was an utter martinette about his pronunciation ( he did n't know when I did n't know ) and would make him happily furious insisting that he repeat words over and over again until I was content . |
| 5 | In the words of Roger of Howden , " the young King , of his own accord and under no compulsion , laying his hands on the Holy Gospels in the presence of a large crowd of clerks and laymen , swore that from that day onward and for the rest of his life he would be loyal to King Henry , his father and his lord , and would serve him faithfully . |
| 6 | Corbett felt refreshed though still wary , pleased that the previous day 's rainclouds had now disappeared and hoping that the Lord Bruce was still in Leith and would grant him an audience . |
| 7 | ‘ . Eliot 's thoughts on civilization would be developed in America , where his longing for the scenes of his youth would also be satisfied and would enable him to return to London to minister , witch-doctor-like , to his civilization , to purify the dialect of his adopted tribe . |
| 8 | Ted felt this field would be very useful and would enable him to extend his holding just sufficient to give him in his words , ‘ that bit extra ’ . |
| 9 | They knew him at McCausland 's , and would treat him reverentially . |
| 10 | Several leading Democrats reacted to this by claiming that , were Thornburgh to remain in office , it would raise the appearance of a conflict of interest and would allow him to circumvent some of the restrictions on the raising of electoral funds . |
| 11 | Dodds is Scotland 's second leading scorer behind Ally McCoist and Roker manager Malcolm Crosby said : ‘ I 'm very interested and would take him tomorrow if I could . |
| 12 | They said they had a knife and would attack him if he did n't hand over his own vehicle . |
| 13 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 14 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |
| 15 | He believed the Lord could and would save him , and he committed himself to the Lord and trusted him to save him . |
| 16 | Merely , I have a great kindness for fitzAlan and would see him happily … |
| 17 | ‘ Thanks ! ’ she hissed through clenched teeth , and would see him in hell before she fed him . |
| 18 | If he did , the police would know where to look for him and would catch him . |
| 19 | There was a confused position and Baldwin was entitled to continue until the oppositions could show that they could and would defeat him in the House of Commons . |
| 20 | ‘ I said I was busy and would call him back . |
| 21 | He would be forced to eat what was placed before him because pigs ' trotters were good for him and would help him to grow . |
| 22 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 23 | In the note she said she was on her way to Pollensa as arranged and would phone him later . |
| 24 | She was a policewoman of sorts , and would arrest him on the spot . |
| 25 | Mother liked him and began to look forward to his visits , and would greet him with : ‘ Hello , Mr Green . |
| 26 | When the knight got to be too old for fighting , about 30 ( ! ) , and became arthritic and slow , his squire would have learned all the skills of chivalry and daring , and would defend him and his family into their old age . |
| 27 | Well aware of English fears , Napoleon III decided that a joint Anglo-French approach to the problems of the Near East would be popular in Britain and would provide him with the lever he sought to hoist France into place in the European system . |
| 28 | Amy never smacked him but would jerk him on to her hip and dump him on her bed saying : ‘ Bloody awful noise . ’ |