Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has its pointers to the future , but I would have forgiven any Vienna professor in 1876 who failed to predict what was to follow . |
| 2 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
| 3 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 4 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 5 | The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt . |
| 6 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 7 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 8 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 10 | McLeish decided he would have to abandon any prejudice taken from Francesca about this trade ; Peter Yeo knew his business and was obviously effective . |
| 11 | Jesus forecast that before the cock crowed twice he would have denied any knowledge of Jesus three times . |
| 12 | I wonder if he would have had any joy that day … only if you tied the rabbits ' legs together , I expect . |
| 13 | Not that it would have done any good . |
| 14 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 15 | If she 'd been forty , I doubt if it would have made any difference — to either of us . ’ |
| 16 | Not that it would have made any difference because I mean , people used to go into shops on that side , which never came up our way and the same with us , coming up there and not going that way is n't it . |
| 17 | Explain if it would have made any difference if the garage owner had said he would sell the car for £1,000 although no price was displayed . |
| 18 | King did not jump , not that it would have made any difference if he had . |
| 19 | Sometimes over the past year she had wondered whether if Fernando had mentioned marriage it would have made any difference . |
| 20 | As we indicate to the general assembly in the printed report , the Board could have insisted on its rights under contract made with those bodies and the Board was confident that it would have won any action in the courts . |