Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway through dressing , wearing his shirt and underpants , he looked for Moda in the workroom , where he assumed she would have thrown it on their pile of magazines ; he wanted to gaze at Bella Kropotkin again , but he could n't find the magazine . |
| 2 | Although he said he would remain active in Polish politics , he left Poland for Canada on Dec. 12 . |
| 3 | Faithful to him , even if they would have to be apart sometimes , as he 'd be faithful to her , although he knew she 'd take more than a little convincing about that . |
| 4 | Sid was keeping a close eye on Mr Didier ; not that he thought anyone would try to poison him , but you never knew , when the likes of Peckham were around . |
| 5 | His grin suggested that he thought I 'd trade in my TI notebook for some new whizz-bang offering . |
| 6 | If Vincent had rejected a place on the scheme , then it was certain that he thought it would fail . |
| 7 | Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week . |
| 8 | At first he gave the somewhat fatuous explanation that he thought he would find it easier to ride his bicycle without his testicle ( the other testicle was small due to atrophy ) . |
| 9 | IN HIS speech to the House of Commons debate on the Draft Appropriation No 2 ( Northern Ireland ) Order , in July , DUP leader , the Rev. Ian Paisley welcomed the appointment of Sir John Wheeler as NIO Security Minister adding that he hoped he would bring the benefit of his experience in prisons to bear . |
| 10 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 11 | When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! |
| 12 | On the first anniversary of the return to civilian rule President Shehu Shagari vigorously condemned party bickering in the papers and said that he hoped it would end . |
| 13 | In his speech at the National Botanical Gardens in Washington , Clinton made only passing reference to efforts to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to a cabinet-level Department of the Environment , saying that he hoped it would happen ‘ soon , by the grace of Congress ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As for the race itself , Kinane added that he knew he would win some way from home and had enjoyed a trouble-free run throughout . |
| 16 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 17 | In this ague-altered state Wallace perceived the whole symphony of evolutionary change with such immediacy that he feared it would escape him like a dream before he could write it down . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’ |
| 19 | As the recession deepened [ see below ] , the Hawke government began 1991 some 18 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls , raising questions concerning Hawke 's future as leader , particularly as Keating had let it be known at a National Press Club dinner in December that he believed he would make a better Prime Minister than Hawke . |
| 20 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 21 | Marcus said he would n't like it , and added that he supposed he 'd have to go sometime . |
| 22 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 23 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 24 | However the offices were closed so he said he would call first thing in the morning . |
| 25 | He was beginning to realize he did n't have popular appeal , so he thought he would try to mould his work into the sort of thing bought by a small book-buying elite . |
| 26 | That 's because I did n't have time to sit and colour with him so he decided he 'd do it all blue himself did n't you ? |
| 27 | I threatened to leave , so he promised he 'd change . |
| 28 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 29 | When Grainne slipped silently into his room , desire blazed up so uncontrollably that the banked-down emotions of a lifetime were swept aside , and he knew he would take her fiercely and violently . |
| 30 | It was Emily who had suggested this ‘ drink after work ’ , and he knew it would lead to more than that . |