Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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1 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
2 | Taking them back to Orkney , they felt , would have deprived them of the privacy they needed . |
3 | If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end . |
4 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
5 | The Sixth Fleet , Talbot was aware , would have informed him of the presence of any of their aircraft in his vicinity , not from courtesy but because regulations demanded it , a fact of which O'Rourke was as well aware as he was . |
6 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |