Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] would [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew he was in a position to do what he wished , but what made him think she would enjoy it ? |
| 2 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 3 | And , as Tweed had predicted to Paula in a similar context , he expected it would take him months to unravel the affairs of the world-wide octopus , INCUBUS . |
| 4 | When one quiet weekend this February Mr Grosz left the country on a short trip to Switzerland , little did he know what would await him on his return . |
| 5 | If he moved they would see him ; if he stayed still they would find him . |
| 6 | He says it would take him years to get the house the way he 'd like it . |
| 7 | He reckoned it would make you more … susceptible . ’ |
| 8 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 9 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 10 | Mr Ralph had taken his children to the Disney resort in Florida because he thought they would enjoy it , but he had fallen in love with Mickey Mouse himself . |
| 11 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 12 | He thought it would give it a bit of glamour . |
| 13 | He thought it would do me good . |
| 14 | He thought she would marry him when her husband died . |
| 15 | And then , because he thought she would like it , ‘ I 'm sorry , Ma . ’ |
| 16 | She must judge , too ; he thought she would trust him and let him have his way . |
| 17 | He thought he would do me a service by telling me that the Ice Princess who had caught my eye was right here , in Roma . ’ |
| 18 | He thought he would remind him too much of his mother . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | He feels it would put him at a disadvantage . |
| 21 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Every time he saw her it hurt him , and he knew it would hurt him even more tonight , to see her cavorting with her lover on the stage . |
| 24 | A little tickle , but he knew it would keep him awake all night . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He meant it would make her look older and plainer . |
| 27 | He felt it would leave him little time for his writing for one thing . |
| 28 | But then he saw that he could not afford to believe her , because if he did he would allow her a tactical advantage , a small victory that should lead to greater ones . |
| 29 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 30 | Yet he , the archer , might have gone back there to check again after all and if he had he would know I was alive , but he would never find me where I was now , deep in impenetrable shadow along a path he could n't follow in the dark . |