Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls would have stayed undiscovered while parents David and Sharon Schoo spent a week in Acapulco , Mexico , if a smoke alarm in their home near Chicago had n't gone off . |
| 2 | He would have recognized French or German , without being able to speak either language . |
| 3 | a reasonable profit but some would have made more than others . |
| 4 | Had they checked with a knowledgeable nuclear physicist — and there were several in the nearby physics department who could have helped — or held a technical seminar before the press conference , they would have learned this before events overtook them . |
| 5 | In the early 1980s Lord Hanson 's £3.5billion successful bid for Consolidated Goldfields would have seemed unlikely and Sir James Goldsmith 's audacious £13billion offer for BATs impossible . |
| 6 | He also thought she would have looked younger and fitter . |
| 7 | From this it appears that they would have to become unrecognisable as potatoes before they could have been said to have perished . |