Example sentences of "he would [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To really know him would take a lifetime . |
| 2 | He was several steps ahead of her all the time and outwitting him would need a genius , and that she was n't . |
| 3 | Later he would design a window for the new cathedral . |
| 4 | Later he would design a window for the new cathedral . |
| 5 | Every spring he would hire a small bus to take the older children to the foothills of the Apennines . |
| 6 | All that programme needed now was a suitable label , and Johnson found it : he would create a " Great Society " . |
| 7 | Keating , who crushed the pro-monarchy conservative opposition in national polls last Saturday , said he would create a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic by 2001 . |
| 8 | One of them said he faced a possible ban from International footie ( playing for France I assume , and any matches the scum have in Europe — nyuk , nyuk ) , the other said he would face a ban from the game — AS A WHOLE . |
| 9 | Defence counsel , Michael Parroy , said because Jones was a magistrate , he would face a tough time in jail . |
| 10 | He said that there would be no time for a statement on the valleys initiative during Question Time and that he would place a copy of his speech in the Commons Library . |
| 11 | Shackel became indignant and said he would fetch a magistrate and complain about the Chief Constable 's attitude , which he did . |
| 12 | She looked at Nails doubtfully , wishing he would choose a more restful bed than the floor of the garden shed at St Aloysius 's , but his expression did not encourage sympathy . |
| 13 | But if Kafka was really laying on the angst , he would choose a name synonymous with pain and defeat , a name like Frank Haffey . |
| 14 | Dodd 's mother said : ‘ I wish he would choose a lethal injection . ’ |
| 15 | But the players were singing in it afterwards and Dowie managed to take a tenner off Bingham ; he had bet the manager he would score a goal . |
| 16 | ‘ I have told Peter Davenport that if he was a bit greedier he would score a lot more goals . ’ |
| 17 | He can watch his Spanish league champions in the same dispassionate way that he would watch a Bulgarian second division match . |
| 18 | Flora , unwisely , told her class he would wear a purple robe and a great cross round his neck and a huge ring like a winegum . |
| 19 | On board days he would wear a tailcoat . |
| 20 | Pristine to the last , he would wear a tie and a suit , whether just pacing the house or going for an evening out . |
| 21 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
| 22 | On Thursday evenings , he would hold a meeting in his own home during which the previous Sunday 's sermon was reviewed by question and answer . |
| 23 | Lightheartedly , the Earl agreed and said that he would hold a Tournament . |
| 24 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 25 | He would hold a series of great banquets at No. 10 as an example to the nation to spend its way out of depression . |
| 26 | The Labour leader pledged that he would devise a new radical strategy to tackle injustice in Britain . |
| 27 | A hotel spokeswoman said : ‘ He booked in his family and we asked if he would do a turn . ’ |
| 28 | And er these were er he would do a lot of the iron work , because a lot of the iron work would be forged . |
| 29 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 30 | He would do a lot of Ca , canning if they 're in Canada do n't they ? |