Example sentences of "[noun] he would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 2 | Not only , said Nicky , was this proof positive of the Englishness — indeed the Lancashireness — of Griffiths 's voice , but Griffiths had also said that if cornered in future he would shoot his way out rather than submit to arrest — exactly what he did do . |
| 3 | In return for their addresses he would allow me to stop doing press-ups in the mud . |
| 4 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 5 | From these amorphous and uncertain images he would create his own imaginings , superimposed and dominant , but essentially just as incomplete , just as distorted — as were the others by his own preconceptions , his own personality . |
| 6 | Some doubting townsfolk had their reservations , so Thomas offered that if it did not have the desired effect he would forego his fee . |
| 7 | But she never dared ask him , for fear he would tell her ) — the grocer treated her to infrequent smiles and would give occasional chocolates to Victoria , who would go back to the toyshop with a heavy brown moustache and sideburns . |
| 8 | On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself , and beforehand live in his mind the sea-life of light literature . |
| 9 | If she wore a skirt he would think she cared what he thought . |
| 10 | There are fears that as President he would sting them with stiffer tax bills . |
| 11 | Auxilliary nurse at BUPA Murrayfield Hospital Michael Douglas told the jury at Liverpool Crown Court : ‘ If he was talking about his marriage he would say they were breaking up or that she was leaving him . |
| 12 | It was inevitable when he moved to England he would join them . |
| 13 | In a second he would kill me . |
| 14 | In a philosophical mood he would describe his loneliness as an occupational hazard . |
| 15 | From his first home with Mary in Canonmills he would take their mongrel dog , Penny , to the nearest open space which was a coalyard , a spur off an old railway . |
| 16 | If he ever found this girl he would thank her for choosing to live in that quarter of the city . |
| 17 | In exchange he would exhibit his collection there for fifteen years , keeping the freedom to exhibit it around the world , and buy and sell from it . |
| 18 | That way people could stare at him as much as they wanted to and as much as he wanted them to ; then at the crucial moment he would lift his face and turn those famous eyes on his chosen suitor for the evening . |
| 19 | What else could she do but go on , fearing that at any moment he would realize she 'd tricked him ? |
| 20 | To be married would be diverting ; she would be free to do as she pleased , and Paul was such a dear he would cause her no anxiety . |
| 21 | Beyond this point he would observe something very strange : the area of the spherical surface would decrease , until when he had travelled twice as far to he would find that it had shrunk to nothing . |
| 22 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 23 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 24 | In a few days he would release him . |
| 25 | As Randolph Churchill so eloquently described in The Fight for the Tory Leadership , Macmillan had seen Hailsham on the Monday before the Conference and indicated that in the event of retirement he would support his candidature . |
| 26 | " Mrs Plant , " Timothy said quite softly , and Mr Plant whispered that if he issued another sound he would thump him to a pulp . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 28 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
| 29 | Pete Waterman had once promised his prodigy that one day he would transform her into the Madonna . |
| 30 | On one day he would articulate his awareness that his life-span would be short ; on other days he would speak vibrantly to the issue of looking forward to returning to work , to what type of work he would be doing in the future , and so forth and so on . |