Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] would [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
| 2 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 3 | The natives insisted he burn the book or they would attack him . |
| 4 | He dare n't go back or they would see him . |
| 5 | who or what would upset him ? |
| 6 | who or what would please him ? |
| 7 | In spite of the iciness of the day he felt warm and exhilarated , and he was determined that nothing would prevent him from attending . |
| 8 | Artemis threw the reins at his head so that nothing would check him . |
| 9 | Mortified , inwardly seething with fury at this last suggestion , Caroline had endured Roman 's taunting smile as he 'd wryly assured his hostess that nothing would give him greater pleasure … |
| 10 | Odd-Knut was ahead of us , so that nothing would stop him being first away . |
| 11 | Her husband , taking his cue , murmured that nothing would surprise him nowadays . |
| 12 | The entrance foyer was packed when Georg sidled in that evening , hoping that no-one would see him and recognize him . |
| 13 | One of his little projects was that I would send him down some very promising people from the Royal College to teach in the West Riding . |
| 14 | I had wagered a purse that I would beat him at bowls and Drake never could resist gold . |
| 15 | I was n't saying Kerslake was crap , just that I would swap him for Dixon , Parker , Nilsson or Rob Jones . |
| 16 | I called after her that Jean-Claude was not at home but that I would find him . |
| 17 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 18 | Boy was like that , he was hoping that somebody would take him to the place where everybody else was . |
| 19 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 20 | She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her . |
| 21 | She was hurt that John had said nothing to her about it , and decided that she would avoid him in future . |
| 22 | His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him . |
| 23 | There was no way that she would give him the satisfaction of seeing her emerge later in the evening with puffy red eyes . |
| 24 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 25 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 26 | Mildred spent a lot of time by the pond telling the frog-magician that she had n't forgotten him and that she would get him out if it was the last thing she did . |
| 27 | He had said he was a very good friend of Danny , Carrie 's brother , and it was likely that she would see him sometime in the future . |
| 28 | Always optimistic , Anne felt sure that now that she would see him regularly at the dance , she would soon find out how he 268 really felt about her , but it was not to be . |
| 29 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |
| 30 | For a moment , he thought that she would hit him . |