Example sentences of "would have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The men collect it and know that of the children doing it , you would think that they 'd have noticed over the years , that at the end of each month it says , on the readers ' list it says children and I think that
2 Otherwise , I 'd have gone to the police when Sam did n't show up yesterday . ’
3 Mind you , I earned that foreman 's job , but I did n't take it because I knew the problems I 'd have had with the men . ’
4 You say I 'd have to revert to the ranks .
5 She 'd have watched through the seasons — how many Novembers , how many Junes ? — and noted the easy stairwell of living wood , raggy in autumn , then winter-bare and ridged with snow .
6 ‘ She 'd have to look after the kids in the evenings . ’
7 They would have to live with the consequences if someone was attacked after being refused a weapon . ’
8 You would be confined to the building , naturally , and you would have to live in the cells , but it would probably save your life . ’
9 Such action , I believed — and still believe — would have played into the hands of my enemies .
10 However , when his mother , Adele Britton , tried to remove it , she realised she would have to call in the professionals .
11 The French psychiatrist Pierre Deniker , records that a substance closely related to promethazine and later known as chlorpromazine was synthesized in 1950 and ‘ would have remained on the shelves had the surgeon and physiologist Henri Laborit not asked the manufacturer for a drug with central effects stronger than those of promethazine ’ .
12 But , I mean , she 's been down there and must be gone now something has , but I said surely she would have heard from the police if it 'd been
13 It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone .
14 It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried .
15 I am sure I would have gone to the Crusades and done my bit , although that might just have been the racist in me or my natural desire to loot .
16 Joseph was shocked at the sight of his master , and would have gone to the police , if Heathcliff had n't forced me to describe what happened .
17 I would n't have thought he would have gone into the woods with Angela Brickell .
18 Otherwise every scrum would have ended with the scrum-halves and both sets of forwards wallowing in the mire with little chance of the ball every seeing daylight .
19 ‘ Excuse me , everyone , ’ said Zimmerman , rising , for being short of staff he would have to attend to the visitors himself .
20 An active sentence would have to refer to the interviewer(s) .
21 Davy at the end of his life remarked that the service of the laboratory was a service of danger ; that few chemists could expect to retain a quick eye and a steady hand for very long , and would have to rely on the hands and eyes of assistants .
22 Fourth , they argued , Muslim and Croat forces would have moved into the areas their own forces had vacated .
23 In other words Jordan would have to act for the Palestinians .
24 Much would have depended on the distances involved and on the modes of transport available as already mentioned above ( p. 44 ) .
25 In the succession of sons to their fathers ' benefices , reform would have depended on the bishops and , of course , the clergy themselves .
26 She already had her travelling companion , Swimmer of Lakes , and if she thought of the wild horses in the valley at all it was simply to wonder about the legend of the tamers : to subdue the spirit of the wild animal ; to be permitted to ride upon its back ; yes , magic would have been necessary in early thought , and cult legends certainly would have grown around the hunters who snared the fast , proud creatures .
27 In the past the NZRFU might not have dealt with submissions from individuals ( such as Knight or even Mayhew ) but would have waited for the details to come , union-to-union , through the usual official channels .
28 A male plumber would have to see to the pipes .
29 I felt that after my performance with Rose he would have called on the services of Jim Oakley for any further trouble .
30 It would have to go through the books
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