Example sentences of "would have [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd have seen him walk toward the escalators as the car drew away , moving as if on some rudimentary automatic pilot . |
| 2 | He would have to let her recover from the shock before contacting her . |
| 3 | I let your white flesh and your skinny body and your blond hair blot out things that would have made me shudder at home . |
| 4 | If he too had wanted the bomb to go off , his belief would n't have made him shoot , it would have made him dive for cover . |
| 5 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 6 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 7 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |