Example sentences of "it would [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd break him |
| 2 | Because , if you can , it 'd prove he was there , would n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | Kathleen was worried that it would upset him , but he seemed quite relaxed , laughing over incidents and reminiscing out loud . |
| 4 | He 's only nine and it would upset him badly if the school had to close . |
| 5 | He knew that to face their defeat in Strath Tay ( he assumed defeat now ) would be too wounding , too dispiriting : it would bring him near despair . |
| 6 | It would bring him into conflict , not only with his fellow T'ang but with the great mass of the Above . |
| 7 | It would pin him up against the nearest wall and try to eat his clothes , or chase him until his cries of fright attracted everyone 's amused attention . |
| 8 | Were he to deflect the challenge by dissolving parliament , it would confirm he had not properly learnt the lessons of April 's disturbances . |
| 9 | Robin , to his loathing , was put to work in a bank ; Lessing thought it would steady him . |
| 10 | He had n't admitted this for fear it would disqualify him from this part of the mission , and anyway he had thought he would feel safe behind the comforting protection of a pump-action . |
| 11 | He held out his leather tobacco pouch : the young man looked at it as if it would bite him who touched . |
| 12 | However , I think it would make him rather desperate . ’ |
| 13 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |
| 14 | ‘ I was afraid it would make him turn his face to the wall . |
| 15 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 16 | Because he liked women to be gentle and soft and obedient he thought that women would like being that way since it would make him like them . |
| 17 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 18 | And Mr Mandela said it would make him strive even harder for peace . |
| 19 | In the second place he was behaving as if this was a holiday — a welcome break from his busy life — and if she wanted to go back it would mean he would go back too . |
| 20 | It would serve him right if she was attacked by something . |
| 21 | Every time he saw her it hurt him , and he knew it would hurt him even more tonight , to see her cavorting with her lover on the stage . |
| 22 | And I think that he would shy away from scandal , it would ruin him socially also . ’ |
| 23 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 24 | It would embarrass him and she was n't sure that Lady Agatha would receive her . |
| 25 | Except that it would embarrass him if it were known that he was involved with someone like her , whereas she was ashamed of herself . |
| 26 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 27 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 28 | I 'm of age , after all , and it would give him a terrible fright . |
| 29 | Caledor does not draw the Sword of Khaine even though it would give him the power to defeat the Witch King . |
| 30 | He did n't want to drag them , because even though it would give him more room there would be a risk of noise which might attract the attention of the housekeeper . |