Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would have recognized you the moment I saw you , ’ Graham said .
2 Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed .
3 That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters .
4 At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him .
5 She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness .
6 Even without the simple affirmation his face would have given her the answer ; he looked pale and drawn , as if he had slept even less than she had .
7 ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’
8 At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again .
9 Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship .
10 This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists .
11 Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems .
12 ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’
13 My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw .
14 If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company .
15 The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible .
16 He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed .
17 But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly .
18 She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here .
19 If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced .
20 Not only did the Bills fail to get the win which would have won them the AFC East division and secured home advantage throughout the play-offs , but finished the game with quarterback Jim Kelly nursing a knee ligament injury .
21 Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden .
22 ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’
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