Example sentences of "would have [verb] [pron] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , if they wanted to know the truth beyond all doubt , they 'd have sent me up to Scotland , would n't they ? |
| 2 | But Laura was a piranha ; she 'd have chewed him down to the bone if he had let her . |
| 3 | doll I 'm afraid I 'd have to give it back to them . |
| 4 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 5 | If a reader had asked you if she should reveal all in a frank autobiography I think you 'd have advised her not to . |
| 6 | It starts at nine fifteen , so I 'd have to bring him over to you quite , quite early |
| 7 | If I 'd had my hat I 'd have taken it off to the guy . |
| 8 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 9 | In the 14 previous games under his management , Coventry had drawn eight , five of them goalless , and another point would have edged them closer to safety . |
| 10 | Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . |
| 11 | Do you think it 's at all possible that anybody who has this number , like presumably your agent has it or friends have it , is it at all possible anyone would have given it out to somebody ? |
| 12 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 13 | She knew that Nîmes was a provincial city and would have preferred it not to be , seeing " provincial " in terms of the English nineteenth century novel , not of the Roman Provincia , Provence . |
| 14 | And if he would have preferred it not to be Frizingley , to be , in fact , anywhere else but there , he managed to quell his initial misgivings by the grim reminder that he would be unlikely to know anyone in St Jude 's now . |
| 15 | Andrew confided in me that if the officer had asked his permission to play the pipes on this occasion , he would have told him not to be such a fool . |
| 16 | It was a strong probability that the Guardian still retained in their archives a numbered copy of the minutes which would have told us immediately to whom that copy had been issued and therefore the name of the informant . |
| 17 | It would have suited you down to the ground . ’ |
| 18 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 19 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 20 | If he had been able to , how gladly he would have hired himself out to either of the wealthy men whose daughters had died . |
| 21 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 22 | If one of his deans or canons had written it in a Meditation he would have read it out to Bob in a mock-clerical voice , and deleted it , snarling . |
| 23 | He left the road at the hairpin bend which would have taken him up to Albert Terrace and followed the path through the kissing-gate to the moor . |
| 24 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 25 | ‘ If you had family or friends in Winchester , Guy would have taken you straight to them , ’ de Villiers answered , more at ease now . |
| 26 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 27 | They would have put it down to an alfresco commercial for one of the shows . |
| 28 | And like well I said to her I said well then Sandy would have put it down to the fact she did that bad in her ballet . |