Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 2 | You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out . |
| 3 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 4 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 5 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |