Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have fitted up this room , only he could n't afford it . |
| 2 | If I 'd known what it was I would have chopped up that snow-plough before the snows arrived . ’ |
| 3 | Military engineers would have worked out this information , and fed it into each missile , many months before . |
| 4 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 5 | He wanted her badly , and if he 'd taken her in his arms she did n't think she would have put up any kind of resistance . |