Example sentences of "he would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 23 February / 7 March , five days after his accession , Alexander told the ambassadors of Austria and Prussia that in foreign affairs he would adhere to the late tsar 's principles . |
| 2 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 3 | In the evening when they came back he would crumble salt on a flat stone for them to lick , and once , in addition to their hay , he gave them the heap of grain that was left at the bottom of the fermentation jar when the beer was finished . |
| 4 | He said that he would welcome this , but queried whether Curzon would be willing to serve , and also indicated that he would endeavour to bring Austen Chamberlain and Horne back into the Government . |
| 5 | Due to some mechanical fault the driver did not think that the northbound unit would make it to Crewe and he would endeavour to coast it back to Swansea . |
| 6 | John Major said he would visit Saudi Arabia , Oman and Egypt , starting on January 6th . |
| 7 | From time to time he would visit his family in Germany and when he left in July 1939 everyone assumed he would return . |
| 8 | To exchange experience on raising rare seeds , he would visit James Gordon 's thriving shop in the City 's Fenchurch Street , many of the seeds sold there harvested from Gordon 's own nursery between Mile End and Bromley . |
| 9 | Philips arranged with the Procurator-General of the Regent 's government in Brussels that he would visit Antwerp at a time when Tyndale 's host Poyntz was away . |
| 10 | And after their lengthy and intimate chat , he confided in a naval colleague that ‘ at the earliest opportunity ’ he would visit Janet 's shop in Beauchamp Place around the corner from Harrods . |
| 11 | He would welcome the earl 's promised offering gladly , and withdraw in good order to his own monastery , though what he would visit on Tutilo when he got him safely back there might be dreadful to think of . |
| 12 | But , before he came back to his Tyneside home , he decided he would visit India to see the white tigers . |
| 13 | Pérez de Cuéllar announced on Jan. 9 after the failure of the Baker-Aziz meeting that he would visit Baghdad ; he arrived on Jan. 12 and saw Saddam Hussein for several hours the following day . |
| 14 | President Richard von Weizsäcker described the events as " frightening and disgraceful " and announced that he would visit one of the affected hostels . |
| 15 | He would visit his home , making faces at the Pearson children as they hung out their bedroom windows looking for him . |
| 16 | Dr Tzakis hugged Laura 's parents , Fran and Les , and said he would visit them in England . |
| 17 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 18 | ‘ Paint has a lovely smell , ent it ? ’ she 'd say , ‘ and a lovely feel , ’ and he would laugh at her soft , nonsensical way of talking . |
| 19 | We 've both become victims of Private Eye and I know that he would laugh at some of the things they 've said about me , and I 'd do the same to him . |
| 20 | Brian would n't mind being got , but he would laugh . |
| 21 | I sounded to myself absurd and thought he would laugh , but he said nothing except ‘ It 's diseased ’ , and he sat down again . |
| 22 | The poor little thing ’ , and he would laugh , and sometimes he would skin it himself and sometimes he would throw it away , but now she says , ‘ I am not going to skin that rabbit , Hywel , so do n't imagine I am ’ , and sometimes he skins it himself and sometimes he throws it away . |
| 23 | He owls weep , he would faint , he would rant , he would laugh moan or shriek-as thought the situation demanded . |
| 24 | She remembered the smell as he tipped out the bag of manure he got from Tandy 's every now and then , and the way she would hold her nose and shout ‘ Pooh ! ’ , and he would laugh and call her Miss Dainty Socks . |
| 25 | He would laugh at any suggestion that the photocells might point away from the light , with their wires departing on the side nearest the light . |
| 26 | ‘ The simplest of jobs can be done with panache ’ , he would instruct whenever one of his staff fell short of his standards of perfection — the standards that endeared him to his ‘ Shiny Set ’ customers and staff alike . |
| 27 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 28 | Furthermore he would instruct all the dealers in his charge to do the same , on the grounds that a joint effort would shift the share price , and that , besides , the company 's prospects were good anyway . |
| 29 | He would instruct me in the history of the world while the people of the world walked by , ignoring the salvation we offered them , and the icy wind blew around our ankles . |
| 30 | The pursuer 's son , who was present at the meeting , said that he would instruct Messrs Ferguson & Forster to submit a formal offer to the defender 's solicitors , Messrs Macfie & Alexander . |