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Example sentences for "would return"

  • As for the ordinary bad man, whom I can find in the marketplace of any town, who is feared only by individuals, I would return to him a benefit which I had received from him.

  • If I am to begin to reply to the last argument, I say that I should not give him what he is unable to take; but I would return it, even though he is not able to receive it.

  • Frequently he would return home at night with a pain in his breast, that often continued accompanied by a troublesome cough through a greater part of the night.

  • Poor little Emma would shrink away instinctively from her father when he would return home in the evening and endeavour to lavish upon her his caresses.

  • Well, I met Berkins in Pall Mall, and he said if I would return by the late train that he would spend the night here, and we would go up to town together in the morning.

  • Fearing he would return to the Southdown Road trouble, Maggie said: "I am afraid we shall be obliged to get rid of the new cook.

  • The old Ambassador said that most careful consideration would be given to my case, and that I should be given a suitable Government post if I would return to Constantinople at the Sultan's expense.

  • When I went to the Embassy for the third time I said I would return, so the officials telegraphed to Constantinople, and in three days a money order came.

  • Yes, he told me he would return to-morrow night.

  • He would return to New York and advise that Mrs. Darwin be allowed her divorce and after that why he had no objections if we saw fit to punish Darwin.

  • In a voice as false as his heart he apologized for not having taken it as yet to Tiffany's, but said he would return it to me, if I so desired, at dinner time, when he hoped to have the privilege of taking me to the Ritz.

  • Taking leave of them, he promised to restore them to harmony with the French and their enemies, and cause them to swear friendship with each other, to which end he said he would return to them as soon as he could.

  • I begged him to continue with them until the next year, when I would return with a good number of men, both to reward him for his labors, and to assist as in the past the savages, his friends, in their wars.

  • More than this, she plainly told me, in the early days of our acquaintance, that she believed he would return to her.

  • He had been called away to operate on the feet of a wealthy patient who knew the value of his time: his housekeeper expected that he would return to dinner.

  • I naturally expected that the old Frenchman would return with me to his niece, and tell me what had happened.

  • I always loved to play a social game with my friends, for a small limit, and I never took any advantage, unless it was for a joke, or to run a friend out, and then I would return all I had won.

  • I would return as soon as I learned how her headache was.

  • I let on as though I would return it, until he turned his head away, when I hit him a stinging blow on the ear that doubled him up like a jack-knife.

  • He had told no one he was going to the N'yanza, and now it was thought he would return in the same way.

  • I would return at once, for the king had not tasted food, and would not until he saw me.

  • If I wanted food or pombe, there was plenty of it in her palace, and her cooks were the cleverest in the world; she hoped I would return to see her in the morning.

  • It grieved me, for I loved him, and hoped that he would return, and that in time she would forget Lord Harold, and not be strange, but be as she had been to Cnut before he came.

  • As soon as he had finished his work, instead of shutting himself up in his room, as he loved to do, he would return to her.

  • He would return to Ada with a fresh store of hopes and new illusions.

  • He made up his mind that if the answer Lorchen was to bring him from his mother betrayed too great grief he would return at all costs.

  • That so many years have fled since I sware to the maiden that I would return to her, that came of necessity.

  • But ere he departed he sware to her that he would return when he had achieved his quest; but he kept not his oath.

  • Little good hath it done me that he be my father, and that he sware to my mother, ere he departed, that for her honour, and for her profit, he would return to her without fail.

  • He asked him if he yet thought thereupon, how, when he departed from the land he pledged his word to her that he would return, so soon as might be, to the country of the Moors, for her profit and for her honour?

  • Svirski received from him a brief announcement soon after the duel, that he was well, that in the middle of winter he would go to Egypt, but, before that, would return to Prytulov.

  • Pan Stanislav did not take it from thee at any time; but to-day, if he could, he would return it with all his heart.

  • He would return; he would examine the position with his own eyes, and perhaps undertake something.

  • I am sorry for him; he acted with me as nobly and delicately as only such a man could act; and if I had for him even a small spark of feeling, I would return to him to-day.

  • He went away; I myself do not know why I thought, that he would return, or would write to me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being born; late lord; love letter; would answer; would begin; would better; would choose; would ever; would explain; would fain; would give; would grant; would have been very; would keep; would never; would not; would only; would otherwise; would read; would see; would seek; would shoot; would stop; would suffice; would walk; would willingly