Example sentences of "him [pron] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told him I would ask you . ’ |
| 2 | I told him I would contact him in a few days , but I never did . |
| 3 | I told him you would think it was fun dear . |
| 4 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 5 | If she agreed to marry him she would offer him what she could — affection , duty , loyalty — and he could decide whether it was enough . |
| 6 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 7 | He curled his arm round Claudia 's waist , smiling at the receptionist in a way that made her assure him she would keep his secret . |
| 8 | After she had talked with him she would let everyone else know . |
| 9 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 10 | ‘ An Odets play was awaited like news hot off the press , as though through him we would know what to think of ourselves and our prospects . ’ |
| 11 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 12 | They told him they would do it their way . |
| 13 | So he knew that if he instructed Marshalls to act for him they would charge him their normal fees for their work . |
| 14 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 15 | Fawcett said that this sounded very important and that if Pons sent it to him he would rush it through . |
| 16 | She was painfully aware that if she ever betrayed her ambivalent feelings for him he would end their charade immediately with little or no compunction . |
| 17 | She would need such care and gentleness , and if it killed him he would give it to her , but the passion was raging in him until he could hardly see straight . |
| 18 | But he remained convinced that if only the Elector could hear him he would change his mind : |
| 19 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 20 | If they — whoever they might be — tried to take either from him he would kill them . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ He was telling everyone that if his girlfriend ever left him he would kill her . |
| 22 | I have often missed him , often felt that if only I could talk over a particular problem with him he would help me to see the way . |
| 23 | The next time Eleanor rang him he would ask her to tea . |
| 24 | ‘ He said if I did n't go out with him he would run me over , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |