Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] would [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rocket was , this Scott said that that would take him to the moon . |
| 2 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |
| 3 | This applied in particular to the Prior , Father Stephen Bedale , a man of huge stature and extrovert character , and the kind of man who , had he been a layman , might have given the poet a hearty slap on the back in the belief that this would make him feel at home . |
| 4 | He himself spent hours in the chapel reserved for cadets , praying to the image of Rogal Dorn , and to the Emperor , attempting to recapture the moment when he had flown through fire , sure that this would stand him in good stead in battle . |
| 5 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 6 | The forces of government , the working-class organizations and the Jewish establishment wished initially to ignore Mosley and the fascists in the hope that this would deny him publicity and defuse a potentially explosive situation . |
| 7 | Erm , er but er yes , so eighty thousand to er in equity portfolio , and that would give him a yield of maybe erm you know four percent , something like that after tax deducted , so er let's say erm say you know er say three thousand two hundred from that roughly , and |
| 8 | And that would give him about eighty pounds a month at the moment . |
| 9 | One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’ |
| 10 | Rod Wallace could , I suppose play wide on the right , but this would restrict him too much . |
| 11 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 12 | He needed success , a clean slate , because that would give him freedom to do much as he chose ; and that freedom was everything in life to Wallace Ellwood . |
| 13 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |
| 14 | He could n't answer yes because it would n't be true — and he did n't feel confident of being able to deceive Iron Josh ; and he could n't answer no because that would reveal him as the beginner he really was . |
| 15 | Just occasionally a lesser official might eschew them : Sir Edward Hoby , for instance , told Robert Cecil in 1599 that he would like an office in reversion , since this would give him something to do ; he would not exercise the post by deputy . |