Example sentences of "he would [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mobutu remained head of state , but Tshisekedi insisted that he would control the army and that no special area of power would be reserved for the President . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Fielding promised , he would hire the loft or the studio and line up the auditioning for the bit parts — the waiters , the dancers , the gangsters . |
| 3 | He would show the Protestant that the Church , with its order , and structure , and mission , is a necessary part of the Word spoken in the crucifixion . |
| 4 | He would show the Catholic that the Church is nothing without the Word spoken in the crucifixion . |
| 5 | With great relish he would recount the story of how he had surprised Branson one morning outside his house in Denbigh Terrace . |
| 6 | He would dress the part , even though he wore a cloak or hood . |
| 7 | Then Mr Vulcan returned from London as he said he would to arrange the funeral . |
| 8 | In the autumn of 1985 , Peter Walker , Secretary of State for Energy , had taken to making the following joke in after-lunch speeches : he would quote the Duke of Wellington 's reaction to his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister : ‘ An extraordinary affair . |
| 9 | He then shouted that he would burn the place down . ’ |
| 10 | She had half expected that he would deflect the question . |
| 11 | There was just a tiny blot on her happiness , and that was the knowledge that one day this man would want to settle down , and when he did she felt sure he would choose the companion of his last four years , the pretty Victoria . |
| 12 | For Gandhi , religion is equivalent to helping the helpless , and given the choice between ‘ counting beads or turning the wheel ’ , he would choose the wheel if it meant alleviating poverty and starvation . |
| 13 | He would answer the door and my job was to answer the phone . |
| 14 | He may have agreed that if the goods were in existence he would acquire the ownership of them and if they were not in existence he would get nothing but that in either event he would pay the price . |
| 15 | He would watch the sun rise over the North Sea . |
| 16 | On Saturday mornings he would watch the schoolboy games before turning out for his club , initially Dunedin and later St Kilda . |
| 17 | He shouted something at Endill but he could n't hear because of the wind and did n't dare move or shout back , frightened he would upset the basket . |
| 18 | Then he would hold the phone out to me and say , loud enough for Donleavy to hear , ‘ Hey , it 's the spook . ’ ’ |
| 19 | He would hold the fief and render the homage . |
| 20 | Conducting a graduate seminar on the unpromising topic of textual variants he would hold the room spellbound for two hours by his unforced erudition . |
| 21 | He would hold the crowd as long as he could . |
| 22 | As soon as the salmon had passed between the prongs and into the net , he would scoop the net up triumphantly to inspect the size of the catch . |
| 23 | As for confining his work to under 6,000 people areas , he would remind the Board that the terms of his appointment stated ‘ he will be expected to exercise general supervision over the work of the Board in Norfolk and in particular to assist in the development of Adult Education in rural areas ’ ; he would also remind them that the Board decided that his Statutory Tutorial Class should be in Norwich . |
| 24 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 25 | As Glass recalls in his book , Opera on the Beach : ‘ He would sing the music to me , and I would write it down , part by part . |
| 26 | He would do the operation that night . |
| 27 | As we went out towards the stables I heard Sir Edmund whisper to Santerre that the matters at Templecombe were beyond his brief : he would plan his return to London where he would advise the King to send Justices into the area . |
| 28 | Plea that the note was given to secure the loan ; that , subsequent to the loan and the giving of the note , the defendant had complained to John Bluett that he had not received equal favourable treatment with John Bluett 's other children ; that John Bluett had conceded the truth of these complaints and agreed with the defendant that , in consideration that the defendant should cease his complaints and also out of his natural love and affection for the defendant , he would discharge the defendant from all liability in respect of the loan and the note . |
| 29 | Under general principles he would expect the capital gains to be taxed on a remittance basis and any income to be assessed under Case IV or V of Schedule D on a remittance basis . |
| 30 | He would suffer it , even nurse it along , for a couple of days , and when it went he would forget the case along with the pain . |