Example sentences of "he would " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the above example the gross amount of the gift was £1,000 , so the donor would have to certify that he would be paying tax of at least £250 . |
| 2 | At least one member of the jury said he would not have given a sentence of death ( which must be unanimous ) had he known that Prejean had suffered prolonged mental and physical abuse from his guardians . |
| 3 | But the woman said he would simply not risk meeting her — it was too dangerous . |
| 4 | However , the State President is not as confident as he would like to be . |
| 5 | If he were alive today , he would have even more cause for satisfaction . |
| 6 | ‘ Look again , ’ he would be told . |
| 7 | He was never to say hello to you , and he once said that he would not be interested in his child ‘ until he can go out shooting with me ’ . |
| 8 | He would appear to believe in an invented truth , an invented reality — a Rortyan reality , one might be inclined to call it at times . |
| 9 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 10 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 11 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 12 | Levi would have understood that challenge , just as I think he would have been happy to agree that it is possible to speak without contradiction of the literal imagination . |
| 13 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 14 | Ronnie could have done with one himself but he would have got arrested . ’ |
| 15 | As he would draw it … |
| 16 | And Goldberg , on his pad : If the fool had ever bothered to read what I have written on the subject in the essay on aura and the hour he would not have flailed about as he does here . |
| 17 | I wanted to give him supper but he said he would take sandwiches up to his room and get on with his work . |
| 18 | That 's not only what life is all about , he would say , pointing to it , it 's what art 's all about too . |
| 19 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 20 | Ian Lawrence runs his kitchen just as he would a hotel |
| 21 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , but , madam , if the fellow is a tout — tout , is that the word ? — for one of the hotels here , is it not likely he would need to be ascending like us ? ’ |
| 23 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 24 | And about something as important as so much land and money he would speak with correctitude . |
| 25 | Routine in his life was everything and he would be jiggered if anything — even the abduction of Squire Blacker — would interfere with it . |
| 26 | Had he discovered it , or was she afraid he would ? |
| 27 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
| 28 | But he did eat it , and I thought he would . |
| 29 | He would n't make me have my birthday party in the rumpus-room with the girls . |
| 30 | ‘ Even if he had been out shooting , he would n't slip into a lady 's bedroom in muddy hunting boots . ’ |