Example sentences of "[noun] would have [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosalba would have twitched at such words , but Cati was so used to them , she only wavered because she was wondering how to give him her message , and she thought he was going to turn . |
| 2 | Alice saw that Roberta would have laughed at this , had Faye 's mood permitted it . |
| 3 | Maggie would have left at that point , but as her bed was in the kitchen she could n't get into it until after he 'd left the room . |
| 4 | But , with luck , her father would have left at three . |
| 5 | Lazarus Cohen would have laughed at that ; Butler simply vented his spleen ‘ psalmically ’ , whose chorus was , starkly , ‘ O God ! |
| 6 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 7 | He regretted that his proposal for a peace conference a year ago had not been acted upon , as he was confident the Soviet Union would have participated at that time with beneficial effects for the whole world . |
| 8 | Most criminals would have panicked at that moment . |