Example sentences of "he [verb] they would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borough councillors on the transport committee will consider the proposal on Monday but Mr Docherty said whatever their decision he expected they would take a back seat to Stockton Borough Council which coordinated last year 's meetings . |
| 2 | He thinks they would cost too much in capital outlay and year-round maintenance . |
| 3 | Manager Kevin Keegan underlined Newcastle 's ambition last night when he revealed they would bid for Gazza if he decided to leave Lazio . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , but how did he know they would stay on that course ? ’ |
| 5 | If he moved they would see him ; if he stayed still they would find him . |
| 6 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 7 | Mr Ralph had taken his children to the Disney resort in Florida because he thought they would enjoy it , but he had fallen in love with Mickey Mouse himself . |
| 8 | He knew they would succeed , or die in the attempt . |
| 9 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 10 | He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he confided in a colleague at work . |
| 11 | Mark took these pictures down because he knew they would terrify his patients . |
| 12 | Many of his radical moves , breaking the BBC down into business units instructed to make money or be closed and buying in services from the private sector if it is cheaper , are either in force or due to be so by the beginning of next month — so if he went they would continue anyway . |
| 13 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 14 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 15 | But he said they would present the designs to Reflection , these very sketches , and there would be a great deal of acclaim given to the Gnomes as a result . |
| 16 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 17 | He said they would spend £2bn on education in their first year and a further £2.6bn in the second . |
| 18 | He wished they would show more appreciation of the skills of visiting teams and more tolerance of mistakes by their own players . |
| 19 | He hoped they would pause before passing a clause within the range of which their sons might come . ’ |
| 20 | Even the king , who , unlike his district governor , had practised these precepts himself , had not expected his subjects to do so too , though he hoped they would strive towards the ideal . |
| 21 | Indeed , he hoped they would provide the basis of a religion that could unite the warring factions of the Church . |
| 22 | He supposed they would lock Ho in the boot or hide him somewhere while his father was fetched . |
| 23 | By dipping his arrowheads in the monster 's blood , he ensured they would become poisonous . |