Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could not have guessed that , almost fifty years later , Eliot would be loaded with honours and with happiness while he himself would have retreated into a silence of guilt and despair . |
| 2 | She remembered how huge she had thought the Longhills ' kitchen on her arrival in Nordale , and reckoned that it would have fitted into a corner of this one . |
| 3 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 4 | In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress . |
| 5 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |
| 6 | Any other time , McEnroe would have exploded into a torrent of abuse , but this time he just walked away . |