Example sentences of "[adv] would have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His achievements alone would have won admiration , but John Cranko had another quality besides . |
| 2 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 3 | I meant that , in the case of any other industry , we probably would have let nature take its course . |
| 4 | At one point I made a straightforward attempt to discover what principles were followed in the amalgamation of libraries which clearly would have involved duplication and manifold reasons for legitimate dispersals . |
| 5 | That really would have brought tears to my eyes . |
| 6 | Nothing now would have induced Meredith to sign his petition , whatever it had been for . |
| 7 | Already they 'd built their nests ; even would have laid eggs , said Stan . |
| 8 | A goal here would have killed Blackburn off . |
| 9 | McManaman made it three on 61 minutes … the County Ground faithful started to suffer from shellshock … the Town defence looked battle weary and beaten and surely would have stopped Ronie Whelan from scoring on a better day … |
| 10 | If prices were cut by 50 per cent , then employers in shops etc would have to cut workers ' wages by 50 per cent in order to stay in business . |
| 11 | The woodlands everywhere would have provided game , animals for meat and other resources like bone and leather , fruit , berries , nuts , fungi , and so on , while the uplands may have provided natural or artificially created grazing for horses , deer , wild cattle , wild pigs , and a host of smaller animals . |
| 12 | Shouts for a penalty for Leeds after a handball early on were ignored — a pity , since a goal then would have livened things up a bit . |
| 13 | Anything else would have made pictures like these impossible . ’ |
| 14 | Anything else would have made pictures like these impossible . ’ |
| 15 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 16 | Anyone else would have had tact enough to at least dress it up a little , she thought wryly . |
| 17 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 18 | This too would have raised expenditure irrespective of whether or not a Speenhamland system existed . |
| 19 | If I could have kept him away by paying money , I certainly would have paid money . |