Example sentences of "and he would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They and the coffin were safely back — the coffin in the Volvo , its outline well disguised by an old car cover , and he would bring it round after dark the next evening . |
| 2 | Somewhere there were the right words and he would speak them . |
| 3 | He had been appointed to manage the Laboratory and he would manage it in his own style . |
| 4 | The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road . |
| 5 | Weeks would go by and he would leave me alone and then it would happen a lot . |
| 6 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 7 | He said to get changed and he would show me how to lay the table for dinner as guests were being entertained that night . |
| 8 | And he would show me a picture of a large white vessel sailing through a beautifully blue sea on a sunny day , with a glamorous crew smiling happily as they lay gracefully about the deck . |
| 9 | And he would expect it to get him off the hook . |
| 10 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |
| 11 | Gradually Adam would discover where and how each woman liked to be touched , and he would change his techniques to suit her , then move on to something that she was n't expecting or had never experienced . |
| 12 | The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again . |
| 13 | Cameron passed it by , the man could stew in his choler for a while , and when the dark came on and his servants and womenfolk grued at every owl-call or salmon-splash from the river , his defiance would burn lower and he would give his name . |
| 14 | But you see , you , you see , you could , you could have your goods then you 'll be paying on the slip and he would give you a slip you see . |
| 15 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 16 | Pregnant or not , she had had to read out passages from the scripts which recorded Paul 's thoughts , to see how they sounded ; and he would make her rewrite the illegible parts in her neat hand at some length . |
| 17 | Yes , really you know , because , then I , then I looked at , on the other side they er were full of cows and and he would make it that was alright , but he was making sort of very little . |
| 18 | The club would get £850,000 and he would waive his £150,000 fee . |
| 19 | Earlier in the year Mansell told me that Indycar racing fascinated him — and he would relish its new challenge . |
| 20 | Er for instance , he would get a message the phone would ring and he would answer it . |
| 21 | But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes . |
| 22 | Go to a printer with some ordinary business and he would refuse you , for he was working double tides — and quadruple rates — on railway maps and prospectuses . |
| 23 | Of course he was dissatisfied , and he would kick your rifle back into your face . |
| 24 | He would do it , and he would do it slowly , exquisitely . |
| 25 | His mother was not interested ; Jean-Paul was not concerned : very well , then , he would do what had to be done , and he would do it alone . |
| 26 | But it was not vulgarity , just rudery — and he would do it for some very distinguished people we had on the set sometimes . ’ |
| 27 | if he permitted African businessmen to grow [ they ] will grow to the extent of becoming a rival power to his and the party 's prestige , and he would do anything to stop it . |
| 28 | He loves her and he would do anything for his kids . |
| 29 | And he would watch her go with the certainty that she was meeting a lover . |
| 30 | Later on they might have a few minutes together and he would hold her and she would become herself again . |