Example sentences of "he would have [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 Information about him would have to be gathered slowly and subtly .
2 There was no need to labour that , de Burgh knew well enough how delicately the business of displacing him would have to be undertaken .
3 He 'd have to be careful .
4 He 'd have to be someone in need of a lot of psychiatric help ! ’
5 He 'd have to be a stranger . ’
6 Charles stayed at the meeting long enough to hear when the rehearsal call was for the Monday ; if he accepted Paul 's offer of an understudy job , then he 'd have to be there .
7 He 'd have to be a merchant or a spy , ’ said Ymor .
8 Some time in the early hours of Saturday morning Archie staggered to his feet and said that he 'd have to be on his way .
9 I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean
10 As well as negotiating from strength , Rank had a realistic perception of just how tough he would have to be .
11 McLeish reflected uncomfortably that he would have to be very circumspect in his dealings with Catherine , with this beady-eyed observer around the place .
12 He also knew that if Clasper was to be toppled from his influential position as plant convener — which was essential to the long term recovery of the plant — he would have to be seen to be toppled by his own members , acting in their own interests .
13 He would have to be careful .
14 ‘ Well , he would have to be , would n't he ? because it was in the papers only last week that one of them was sent along the line to Durham for fighting .
15 In time he too would recruit and form an IRB circle there , but he would have to be careful ; Castlebar was a garrison town .
16 He would have to be very , very careful .
17 This time he would have to be more subtle .
18 Attention would only be conditionally offered to Ollie if Stan was in the room , and if the family were enjoying a quiet cuddle with Stan , he would have to be rejected in favour of Ollie if he appeared .
19 He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written .
20 The Tykes switched from Pakistan 's Aqib Javed because he would have to be given a two-year contract under TCCB rules while 21-year-old Benjamin could sign for a year .
21 He would have to be prepared for Godolphin 's wrath .
22 He was a bully , he flew into rages , but to do what Albert believed he had done he would have to be wicked , and Carrie did n't think he was that .
23 They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped .
24 He would have to be very careful how he handled his bride , for she had been injured enough .
25 Since it is impossible to communicate with him to reassure him he would have to be kept sedated .
26 He realised with a sense of desperation that he would have to be twice as cunning as his wife if he was to recover that which she had taken from him .
27 He would have to be blind not to have noticed that something in Cora-Beth 's manner towards him had changed ; that the looks she sometimes gave him were no longer open and friendly but questioning , as if she expected , or was hoping for , something more .
28 He would have to be fast , getting away .
29 He would have to be audacious .
30 He would have to be very careful , only going out after dusk when he could do some jobs for other people in exchange for a little food .
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