Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil industry officials said that Mexico would have to import some petrol products until a new 300,000 bpd plant was completed . |
| 2 | Penny would have known more wives from the Agency and from the Bureau than she would have met wives from the Service . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh said : ‘ Agnes Poley would have understood that atmosphere too . |
| 4 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 5 | She hoped for a reply , but dared not hope too much ; she imagined that the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt would have had many replies and perhaps ladies with experience would be far more preferable to a young comparatively inexperienced girl like her . |
| 6 | John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor 's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead . |
| 7 | One would have thought Willi would have drummed some kind of graciousness into him . |
| 8 | Hayling explained further that if the GLC was going to support the venture , Walsh would have to get some newspaper professionals — or at least semi-professionals — involved , including , of course , Ben Lowe . |
| 9 | Surely , in a different generation , John Jackson would have gained more honours than his single appearance for the Football League . |
| 10 | If Pinewood studios had been in need of a resident historian — and the days of historical dramas emanating from that studio seemed themselves to have been consigned to history-Kenneth Williams would have fulfilled that role . |
| 11 | Frank played left midfielder/winger in a 4–5-1 formation ( with Jostein Flo from Sheff.Utd. at the right flank and debutant Geir Frigard from Kongsvinger , Norway , as the striker ) and did well , even though ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen would have wanted more movement off the ball from him . |
| 12 | Oliver would have had more sense and initiative . |
| 13 | One would have assumed that as two classicists , Punch contributors and men of letters of an old-fashioned Christian temper , Lewis and Knox would have known each other for years . |
| 14 | As Punch would have said many years ago , ‘ collapse of Stout Party ’ . |
| 15 | One of these hours , Yggdrasil would have to change some laws . |
| 16 | Tennyson would have frequented this lane in his youth for he liked to visit the Woodman 's cottage which nestles beside a wood and has an astonishingly colourful cottage garden . |
| 17 | It is a conclusion about an almost psychiatric effect ( and comfort ) offered by serious drama which Aristotle would have had much sympathy with . |
| 18 | As leader of the free world , supported by many other countries and more than adequately equipped , he and the US would have lost all credibility , had any other decision been made . |
| 19 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 20 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Trodd would have done some things differently , or at least struggled hard to get them changed . |
| 22 | All the evidence shows that Anselm would have resisted this development with all his power as an attack on the rights of Canterbury . |
| 23 | Jeremiah would have echoed those words . |
| 24 | And do you know , I very much doubt whether Herluin would have raised any objection to a successful theft , but he 'll have the youngster 's hide now it 's proved a failure . ’ |
| 25 | Mark James would have preferred more hills , too — he was disappointed to have finished halfway down his class . |
| 26 | Mark James would have preferred more hills , too — he was disappointed to have finished halfway down his class . |