Example sentences of "he would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Tzakis hugged Laura 's parents , Fran and Les , and said he would visit them in England . |
| 2 | From time to time he would visit his family in Germany and when he left in July 1939 everyone assumed he would return . |
| 3 | He would visit his home , making faces at the Pearson children as they hung out their bedroom windows looking for him . |
| 4 | He would instruct me in the history of the world while the people of the world walked by , ignoring the salvation we offered them , and the icy wind blew around our ankles . |
| 5 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 6 | When de Raimes had exacted his revenge he would hand her over to his knight , who would complete her destruction . |
| 7 | Well he would would he he would design everything and then obviously it would be important for him to get it sent out . |
| 8 | Holding a joint of beef before him on an outstretched arm , he would wave his free hand over its surface in a gesture approaching a mystical rite , conferring upon the excellence of his merchandise a value far in excess of what the none-too-prosperous housewives of Reine hoped to pay . |
| 9 | He would show them examples of different sorts of pages and wait until they found one they liked . |
| 10 | The Butcher drank so much [ well he said he would show them ] that he got sick . |
| 11 | Perhaps tonight , in these last dying hours of the old year , he would show himself . |
| 12 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 15 | He said to get changed and he would show me how to lay the table for dinner as guests were being entertained that night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whenever possible , Laura tried to visit the Mill personally and Hetherington was struck by her ability to pick a ‘ winning ’ cloth instantly from the fifty or so patterns he would show her . |
| 18 | This monologue went on throughout dinner , after which he insisted that we all went across the road to the village hall where he would show us his slides of the Lake District . |
| 19 | From these amorphous and uncertain images he would create his own imaginings , superimposed and dominant , but essentially just as incomplete , just as distorted — as were the others by his own preconceptions , his own personality . |
| 20 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |
| 21 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |
| 22 | Sometimes , when deep in his cups , he would quote them . ’ |
| 23 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 24 | Terrified that he would guess her wanton reaction to the heart-stopping touch of his hand , Isabel jerked her head away . |
| 25 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |
| 26 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 27 | Theodora wondered for a moment how he would place her . |
| 28 | ‘ Papa said he would beat me if I gave you any more tickets . |
| 29 | She had expected violence , she had thought her father would shout and roar at her , she was certain he would beat her . |
| 30 | The new WBC champion said he ranked Bowe among the best heavyweight fighters today , but was ‘ confident ’ he would beat him if the two met . |