Example sentences of "that would [verb] [verb] he " in BNC.
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1 | He smiled for a long moment into the raging eyes that would have struck him dead if they could . |
2 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
3 | CHINA 'S hardline vice-president Wang Zhen died yesterday , just days before a meeting of parliament that would have retired him from his post . |
4 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
5 | Hardy lacked the social confidence to make his way in professional circles , and also the formal education that would have enabled him to follow Horace Moule , his close friend from Dorchester days , to university and a career in the church . |
6 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
7 | Francis could have been involved in something a bit shady but nothing that would have brought him within range of any violence . |
8 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
9 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
10 | He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain . |
11 | The young Principal , with a tact that would help ensure he remained a ‘ high flyer ’ , had suggested that he should take first luncheon if that were agreeable to the Minister , and had disappeared . |