Example sentences of "he would be willing " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You mean , he 'd be willing to take me back , afterwards ? " |
| 2 | Besides , ’ she added , cutting short a protest from Iris , ‘ I doubt if he 'd be willing to pay the sort of fee Joe Martin would insist on . ’ |
| 3 | Surely he 'd be willing to do that much for her ? |
| 4 | He 'd be willing to bet he 'd be as bleary as hell . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps he 'd be willing to take someone without a dowry . |
| 6 | you 're thinking of direct costs , but erm , Phil was going to ask Jeff if he would chair it , and also if he 'd be willing , to be sort of editor in chief , of Eurofile , so that was yesterday , and I have n't seen Phil since , do n't know what happened with that and went to him that it was a briefing meeting . |
| 7 | Shah declined , but said he would be willing to help finance it for a fee . |
| 8 | His friends have also suggested that he would be willing to sell on a stake in MK Trafford Holdings , the Isle of Man-based company through which the bid is being made , in order to raise cash for the deal . |
| 9 | These were underlined yesterday by the League 's decision to bar Owen Oyston , the radio station owner who has said he would be willing to back Knighton 's offer , from an interest in United . |
| 10 | BOBBY CHARLTON , the former Manchester United and England forward , who is now a club director , made it clear yesterday that he would be willing to take over as chairman ‘ if the right person asked me ’ . |
| 11 | Instead of being asked , as he must have hoped , whether he would be willing to form a government , he was instead asked whether he would be prepared to serve in a National Government under MacDonald . |
| 12 | Not once has the ‘ waverer ’ , General Kukanjac , hinted that he would be willing to recognise the authority of the democratically elected Bosnian government . |
| 13 | He would be willing to draw lots as to who jumps over the side , except that he is sure that the other , if he lost , would go back on his word . |
| 14 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 15 | He would be willing , of course , to keep it for her for ever . |
| 16 | In this shrine of opulence , deference to one 's customer requires that a shopkeeper should not appear to talk of price ( " a murmur reached her " ) , nor treat his goods as merchandise ( " He would be willing … to keep it … for ever " ) , nor should he appear to shut the door on his customer . |
| 17 | Met Headteacher and asked if he would be willing to extend the time our pupil spent with them from one day to three after Christmas . |
| 18 | It remained to be seen whether he would be willing to answer the one question for which Dougal needed an answer . |
| 19 | ‘ I have already heard , ’ said Julian , ‘ how in the council of last November you spoke for a parley with the Lord Owen , and told the king 's ministers that he would be willing to talk peace . |
| 20 | ‘ While King Henry lay in state in Normandy , several barons went to the Earl of Gloucester to ask if he would be willing to take the throne , ’ Guy elaborated . |
| 21 | He criticised the MPs for ‘ their absolute lack of understanding of the conflict here ’ but said he would be willing to meet them to discuss the letter and other issues . |
| 22 | Bush said that he would be willing to lift US sanctions once the Pretoria government had fulfilled conditions including the total lifting of the state of emergency . |
| 23 | The President suggested , however , that if Congress objected to the partial financing of the tax cuts through cuts in domestic spending , then he would be willing to countenance an amendment of the 1990 Budget Enforcement Act in order to allow reductions in defence spending to be used to offset the cost of the tax cuts . |
| 24 | I asked him if he would be willing to meet some members of the House , if Lucy and I fixed up some small dinner parties after my resignation . |
| 25 | A series of attempts to form a new coalition government had failed , and on 5 May President Coty sent a message to de Gaulle , asking whether he would be willing to enter into negotiations to form a government . |
| 26 | Mr Hayton said he would be willing to make a presentation of the computer findings to councillors and if the results could be challenged , they would be re-examined . |
| 27 | I think er that Mr is er Mr er suggestion is that in order to erm expedite matters he would be willing to , to submit his sort of comments , brief comment in writing and hopefully if Mr could fit in a quarter of an hour sometime on Friday |