Example sentences of "he [verb] it would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man was a fool … did he think it would do his reputation any good to appear in weak productions ? |
| 2 | Nor did he think it would serve any purpose to refer to the lipstick-smeared card , originally written by Dotty and still wired to the stem of the mutilated plant , which , in the heat of the moment and the fitful light of the streetlamps was mistakenly thought to have been dipped in blood . |
| 3 | And , as Tweed had predicted to Paula in a similar context , he expected it would take him months to unravel the affairs of the world-wide octopus , INCUBUS . |
| 4 | He doubted it would add up to much , though , just another of her lads , the orange or the green . |
| 5 | ‘ He says it would ruin my case . |
| 6 | He says it would set a precedent . |
| 7 | He says it would take him years to get the house the way he 'd like it . |
| 8 | He says it would have been impossible to find all the hidden ammo . |
| 9 | He says it would turn his outdoor classroom into a museum . |
| 10 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 11 | A planning inspector rejected plans to build a £3m private clinic because he believed it would create traffic chaos and disturb NHS hospital patients . |
| 12 | One retail analyst said he believed it would make customers more likely to spend on food and gifts . |
| 13 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 14 | He claimed it would allow Heseltine to avoid mentioning that Britain was lagging behind Europe in curbing carbon emissions in the run up to the general election . |
| 15 | He reckoned it would make you more … susceptible . ’ |
| 16 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 17 | If Cullam had noticed anything as he walked it would have been the rubbish , the flotsam that the river sucked in and gathered on Its journey through the meadows . |
| 18 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
| 19 | He decided it would go as it was written while he proceeded with other matters . |
| 20 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 21 | The reorganization was recommended by an engineer in the pages of a leading Petrograd journal , since he thought it would lead to the dissemination of experts . |
| 22 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 23 | He thought it would give Mrs Popple more time to calm down . |
| 24 | He thought it would give it a bit of glamour . |
| 25 | He thought it would do me good . |
| 26 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 27 | If Vincent had rejected a place on the scheme , then it was certain that he thought it would fail . |
| 28 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 29 | For after using his plastic seat in the conventional manner , he thought it would make a nice necklace . |
| 30 | in in our in our erm country , the same was there , he tacked on this name , because he thought it would sound better for an army officer to have a name like Rouget de Lisle , instead of just de Lisle . |