Example sentences of "would have [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now erm you will already know and I certainly would 've told you on the phone that er you are not responsible for setting the assignments up . |
| 2 | I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were as David and Jonathan , but if anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose , and as for Charlie … |
| 5 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 6 | It also supposes that vigorous enough action in the early stages of the civil rights movement would have nipped it in the bud and restored Northern Ireland to stability . |
| 7 | Because the way he was wiring them to start with , would have killed somebody in the end . |
| 8 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 9 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
| 10 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 11 | But of course Downton is a huge company , too , and would have dragged everyone through the courts if necessary . ’ |
| 12 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 13 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 14 | It is not envisaged that we would have to use them for the offshore industry , but the provisions provide a safety net . |
| 15 | But Steve would have hit her with the truth — not intentionally , he was n't cruel by nature , but simply with his down-to-earth approach to everything and everyone . |
| 16 | As the head of Cedars was making his entry list for September already , and would have to submit it by the end of the week , the educational psychologist was going to request a place for Balbinder before Statementing him . |
| 17 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 18 | Taking them back to Orkney , they felt , would have deprived them of the privacy they needed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat . |
| 22 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 23 | Werner came to our rescue with the loan of a hundred dollars , which would have to see us through the three or four months it might take us to reach Aru . |
| 24 | If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity . |
| 25 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 26 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 27 | I find myself dipping into my pocket and giving to causes that a decade ago I would have refused to because I would have seen it as the responsibility of the statutory sector . |
| 28 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 29 | Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her . |
| 30 | If , however , C.N.L. were to fail , they would have exposed themselves to the additional financial perils involved in advancing an insupportable plea of justification . |