Example sentences of "he would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beating him would be a feather in my cap . ’ |
| 2 | Rebirth for him would be fatal , in the word of a later poem ‘ like Death , our death ’ . |
| 3 | The premium rate suggested by him would be equivalent to an amount in excess of £1 billion ( $1.95 billion ) for a syndicate with a capacity of £41m ; this in addition to the losses already paid and reserved . |
| 4 | I debated with myself whether it was right to have lunch with an aristocrat but I was also very curious to see what lunch with him would be like and accepted the invitation . |
| 5 | Without technology like this , Jonathon and thousands like him would be debarred from even the simplest form of human interaction . |
| 6 | But to be sorry for him would be a mistake : he lived his life to the full , and in all his deeds he enriched the lives of others . |
| 7 | Then at least something of him would be left . ’ |
| 8 | In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game . |
| 9 | She told us that the best thing for him would be to have some traction sessions three times a week at Wrexham Hospital . |
| 10 | Tyndale 's main problem for the rest of his life was to find a base on the Continent where there was a printing press , where its use by him would be tolerated by the authorities , and from which his translations and publications could be sent to England , either through sales at the great annual book fair at Frankfurt or by river and sea , hidden among the goods of friendly merchants . |
| 11 | IN A report on July 29 concerning Chelsea FC 's midfield star Andy Townsend , we stated that £2.5million in cash for him would be ‘ a huge temptation to Chelsea FC because of its precarious financial position . ’ |
| 12 | Point out that reduced sensitivity means longer and therefore more sex , that condoms can be stretched to fit over someone 's hand and that perhaps you putting a condom on him would be really sexy . |
| 13 | He sent news home to Spain , demanding reinforcements of 1,000 men — the number the cacique had warned him would be required to defeat such forces of hostile Indians along the way . |
| 14 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 15 | If he agreed , the threat of proceedings against him would be unnecessary . |
| 16 | We suggested there that the strategy available to him would be , on the one hand , to work predictively in terms of his previous experience ( similar speakers , similar genres , etc. ) and on the other hand to examine the content of the text . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job . |
| 18 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |
| 19 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 20 | ‘ But even if Riddle was the child 's father , to shoot him would be over-reacting , would n't it ? ’ |
| 21 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 22 | She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden . |
| 23 | To mention him would be to revive an old humiliation . |
| 24 | Dish-king him would be like kicking a puppy . |
| 25 | Working for him would be no picnic , Merrill conceded . |
| 26 | If the Policyholder leases the building to tenants then any loss of rent due to him would be covered , for the period the building was uninhabitable . |
| 27 | Robyn glanced down at the chopping-board ; cooking for him would be bad enough , but others ? |
| 28 | ‘ Part of him would be very pleased that you were laughing at him . |
| 29 | ‘ But on the other hand I do n't want her upset either , and seeing him would be the one thing guaranteed to do just that . ’ |
| 30 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |