Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have made him wait ! ’ |
| 3 | If I had n't heard that whisper , I 'd have let him do what he wanted — anything he wanted — right here and now . |
| 4 | If I had known there was a charge for each , I would have made her wait . |
| 5 | Or she 'd have let me know . |
| 6 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 7 | If you 'd have let me know I could have |
| 8 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |
| 9 | Erm I s do n't think I can give you a precise answer to that question er off the cuff Mr Colgan , I think we 'd have to let you have a note on those figures |
| 10 | Do you think we 'd have let it happen if we 'd known ? |
| 11 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd 've let me know , ’ he said , picking up another splinter of pheasant . |
| 13 | They 'd have seen him walk toward the escalators as the car drew away , moving as if on some rudimentary automatic pilot . |
| 14 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 15 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |
| 16 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 17 | As I say if they took my wages into consideration they would have let us buy next door even . |
| 18 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |
| 19 | He would have to let her recover from the shock before contacting her . |
| 20 | he would have made me pray ( my thought is broad ) |
| 21 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 22 | Had he been in his place on Tuesday , when my right hon. Friend made the opening speech on the Loyal Address , he would have heard him say that the Government would introduce a measure to deal with the young thugs , as my hon. Friend calls them , who indulge in joyriding , a practice which hon. Members in all parts of the House deplore ; those young people will , therefore , be offending . |
| 23 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 24 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 25 | I but it would have made me jump . |
| 26 | Of course it would have made him feel anything but that . |
| 27 | If he too had wanted the bomb to go off , his belief would n't have made him shoot , it would have made him dive for cover . |
| 28 | OK , in the end the board would have told him to sod off , but it would have made him look better . |