Example sentences of "[noun] he would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers . |
| 2 | If he were a poet he would write a poem to that glimpse of bare ankle . |
| 3 | At any moment he would slide a spike between her ribs . |
| 4 | On board days he would wear a tailcoat . |
| 5 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 6 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 7 | If the eagle could only reach there in safety he would have a chance of following almost continuous high ground to Scotland … |
| 8 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 9 | One day he would make a mistake , then she would have him . |
| 10 | Often he would shave it off , but the next day he would have a beard just the same . |
| 11 | But the players were singing in it afterwards and Dowie managed to take a tenner off Bingham ; he had bet the manager he would score a goal . |
| 12 | I certainly welcome any statement made by any Israeli politician to the effect that if in government he would put a freeze on the settlement policy . |
| 13 | Evidently he was determined to walk alone , and unless Doreen broke down his defences he would become a replica of his uncle . |
| 14 | The exercise had its practical value , but he recognized that , in some obscure way , it fulfilled a psychological need , just as in boyhood he would explore a country church by first walking slowly round it before , with a frisson of awe and excitement , pushing open the door and beginning his planned progress of discovery to the central mystery . |
| 15 | When they got to the Place of Tombs he would find a way of breaking them up . |
| 16 | Next time he came on one of these recces he would bring a bag for these trophies , but the chinagraph pencil had worked well in noting on his slate the depths of water and the position of that false beach . |
| 17 | He decided that on the way he would take a look at the nearby clump of trees from which the eerie sounds had drifted during the night . |
| 18 | Stubbornness was an early characteristic , as was the way he would call a halt to any admonishment laid down by Mud . |
| 19 | In time he would seek a solution to this problem by envisaging a brotherhood of painters living self-sufficiently , away from the worldliness of towns and thus uncontaminated by modern fevers and distractions . |
| 20 | Will he therefore take this opportunity of welcoming the positive statement recently made by Mr. Shimon Peres , the leader of the Israeli Labour party , that if elected in June he would put a freeze on the settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 21 | In fact he would have a selling job to do , but could hardly ask Jim Cavalier for a few hints . |