Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had known there was a charge for each , I would have made her wait . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |
| 5 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 6 | As I say if they took my wages into consideration they would have let us buy next door even . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He would have to let her recover from the shock before contacting her . |
| 9 | he would have made me pray ( my thought is broad ) |
| 10 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I but it would have made me jump . |
| 15 | Of course it would have made him feel anything but that . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | OK , in the end the board would have told him to sod off , but it would have made him look better . |