Example sentences of "he would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
2 | he 'd have missed this morning 's siesta |
3 | I reckon he 'd have scored more goals then than he has now . |
4 | When he 'd switched the plates he 'd have to give some thought to ways of raising a little cash to live on . |
5 | ‘ He 'd have got lost ages before we did . |
6 | You 'd have thought he 'd have had more sense . ’ |
7 | He would have to watch that Teng . |
8 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
9 | If there had been room in the hallway , he would have swung Wee Charlie round in a circle . |
10 | She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties ' version of casual wear ; but , of course , when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt , detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand . |
11 | Otherwise it is very likely he would always hesitate or stumble when he would have to use these words in the course of a conversation . |
12 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
13 | Besides , he would have seen last night as a meeting between two sides to an argument . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The vet said he would have undergone prolonged suffering and an extreme amount of pain , because the first pellet would n't have killed him . |
16 | ‘ He would have felt three times as virtuous , ’ I said , and the barman looked at me blankly . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | If any Matson citizen had taken an Italian holiday that year , he would have kept very quin about it . |
19 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
20 | He would have said those nomads were just like beetles . ’ |
21 | One day he would have to kill this man , admire him or not . |
22 | Earlier Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke admitted that if it had been his decision in 1953 he would have reprieved 19-year-old Bentley from the gallows . |
23 | She would need some encouragement from her husband and he would have to display some discipline , ( a ) to provide the information for preparation of the budgets , and ( b ) to accept the result of the exercise and implement any necessary restrictions in buying , etc . |
24 | He reasoned that perhaps he would have to put fresh sensation between these echoes and their origins ; fuck them out ; sweat himself clean . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | But I do n't think he would have liked another person to know . |
27 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
28 | It is therefore doubtful whether he would have reached this result in the absence of a general trust clause , for it is precisely that which transforms the words retentis tibi hortis meis into a trust . |
29 | He was caught in the dark street by left-wing ruffians — those whom he would have called Jewish Communists . |
30 | Because Brutus was such an idealistic character he felt that he would have to take important steps towards saving Rome from the evil grasp of Caesar . |