Example sentences of "[adv] it would [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a lunch party celebrating Colin 's ninetieth birthday , Mr Getty arrived half an hour late with the ingenuous excuse that he had miscalculated how long it would take him to walk from the Ritz to Boodles Club in St James 's Street . |
| 2 | I wondered how long it would take him , and whether Diggs would now have to go shouting through the town , warning that the mad boy who set fire to dogs was on the loose again ; lock up your hounds ! |
| 3 | Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority . |
| 4 | So it would take him , in my view , at least three or four months to get 100 hours night flying . |
| 5 | Maybe it would shut him up for a while . |
| 6 | there 's a big bus somewhere near I 'd drop him and then it would run him over |
| 7 | However , within just a few hours , as the region continued to collapse , the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart . |