Example sentences of "he would [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Brampton 's soul hover here , as he would for eternity , between heaven and hell ? |
| 2 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 3 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 4 | He would of course never dream of playing these tapes on the music centre at home , risking the derision of his children . |
| 5 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 6 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 7 | He would of course be delighted to attend a gathering at the Tower the following day , but was McGann aware ( indeed did he care ? ) that tomorrow was Christmas Eve ? |
| 8 | He would of course estimate the supply prices of all these different factors of production of the cloth with reference to the amounts of each of them that would be wanted , and on the supposition that the conditions of supply would be normal ; and he would add them all together to find the supply price of the cloth . |
| 9 | Terror possessed him in the night ; he would of habit turn to Dinah as his only solace . |
| 10 | By his statement of claim , the plaintiff alleged that on July 6 , 1932 , the defendants by their solicitor , a Mr. Kennard , verbally agreed with him that , if he would on July 7 , 1932 , pay the £208 in cash into a bank at Eastbourne for the credit of the solicitor 's firm at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , that payment would satisfy all sums that he owed them and a bankruptcy notice which they had issued in respect of part of the debt would not be served on him . |
| 11 | The effect of both tariffs was the same : the more , electricity the consumer used , the less he would on average pay per kWh . |
| 12 | ‘ He would on terms , that 's the rub . |
| 13 | When a routine problem arises he perhaps assembles the information and pursues his inferences to the conclusion almost as tidily as he would on paper . |
| 14 | As we spent hour after hour sitting at our work-table , all curtains drawn to intensify our concentration beneath the old-fashioned fringed standard lamp , he would from time to time ease his buttocks and balls , pulling and tugging on the firm seams of the taut , well-worn jeans or the well-rubbed brown needle cords , scratching and stroking himself idly , as if unselfconsciously in the most private places with those delicate fingers with the bitten nails and his big , warm palms . |
| 15 | He scorned special equipment and commonly appeared on a mountain or in a jungle as he would in Bond Street . |
| 16 | A beginner learns the same basic kicks in taekwondo as he would in karate . |
| 17 | So that an angry customer in Donegal will get exactly the same wording to calm him down as he would in Cork or Wexford . |
| 18 | But if young David gets himself into Parliament , I expect he 'll do as good a job on the government back benches as he would in opposition . ’ |
| 19 | If he went against this young man sitting opposite him , he would in effect dig his own grave . |
| 20 | A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ? |