Example sentences of "would have [verb] [pron] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 14 previous games under his management , Coventry had drawn eight , five of them goalless , and another point would have edged them closer to safety . |
| 2 | Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . |
| 3 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 4 | It was a strong probability that the Guardian still retained in their archives a numbered copy of the minutes which would have told us immediately to whom that copy had been issued and therefore the name of the informant . |
| 5 | ‘ If you had family or friends in Winchester , Guy would have taken you straight to them , ’ de Villiers answered , more at ease now . |