Example sentences of "he would have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He would have to watch that Teng .
2 Besides , he would have seen last night as a meeting between two sides to an argument .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 If any Matson citizen had taken an Italian holiday that year , he would have kept very quin about it .
7 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 .
8 One day he would have to kill this man , admire him or not .
9 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 .
10 He reasoned that perhaps he would have to put fresh sensation between these echoes and their origins ; fuck them out ; sweat himself clean .
11 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 .
12 But I do n't think he would have liked another person to know .
13 He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape .
14 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 .
15 Only then would he know for certain that it had really happened , and that he would have to take some action .
16 With regret Stirling realized that he would have to abandon offensive action that night and decided to withdraw without placing any bombs , so as not to jeopardize a future visit .
17 McLeish decided he would have to abandon any prejudice taken from Francesca about this trade ; Peter Yeo knew his business and was obviously effective .
18 I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist .
19 He would have played last weekend had it been an international . ’
20 Jesus forecast that before the cock crowed twice he would have denied any knowledge of Jesus three times .
21 In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life .
22 Even fully fit he would have stood little chance against the oriental , who was an expert in martial arts combat .
23 He would have put this girl 's age at seventeen , perhaps eighteen .
24 At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him .
25 If Paul had known what was to befall him on his way to Damascus , he would have taken another road .
26 The FBI has yet to explain why he would have needed another copy when he already had one .
27 Tonight , he would have to try another ruse
28 If he really had left his boat in the cove round the point , he would have to come this way again , and I would certainly be able to see if he brought anything with him .
29 Outside the hotel he would have attributed such behaviour to day excursionist ‘ Arrys and ‘ Arriets and called the police .
30 HAD Nigel Lawson toured the tea bars at the Blackpool Winter Gardens yesterday , he would have found one topic on everyone 's lips — increased interest rates .
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