Example sentences of "would have [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I warned you before , I 'd have to take action if you carried on as you were . |
| 2 | I 'd have to ask Mick but I do n't think so . |
| 3 | If you knew what I was doing you 'd have moved heaven and earth to stop me . |
| 4 | She 'd have killed Isabel if she could ! ’ |
| 5 | If she had her own car , she knew she 'd have turned tail and run , back to Les Hiboux to begin with , and then to Bordeaux and its airport . |
| 6 | If they had the time they 'd have cut words or letters out of magazines . |
| 7 | If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’ |
| 8 | We 'd have mixed appetites if you 'd given it any thought . |
| 9 | She 'd have to show Martin that though they would always be friends , her first loyalty lay with her husband . |
| 10 | But if the tyre had not been expanded enough , we 'd have to have levers and gently lever and hammer it on , something in the same way as you 'd do with a bicycle tyre . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd have thought Brahms and Liszt would have been more to your taste . ’ |
| 12 | There was no space for two small children or one transversely-mounted adult , not a trace of walnut , and if you wanted to listen to a radio in a Cobra you 'd have needed speakers that would n't have disgraced a heavy-metal band . |
| 13 | He looked distraught , his tie was pulled down and his collar open , his hair was ruffled , but even if he had been neatly dressed and groomed , the bright staring eyes and hectic cheeks would have warned Pascoe that something was amiss . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It remains to decide whether the Unionists would have accepted fusion if Lloyd George could have made it a real option in 1920 . |
| 16 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 17 | If this obstruction , obviously intended to stop Webb playing any further part in stopping the move , had been noticed , the try would have been disallowed , the game drawn and England would have played Canada and so on . |
| 18 | In the future , colleges like his would have to sell courses and expertise widely , often linking on a franchise basis with higher education establishment , to supply components for degree and other higher qualifications while extending to younger students , the opportunity to gain a variety of academic and vocational ones . |
| 19 | If the greenkeeper had cut the rough at the back of the last , Nicklaus would have gone out-of-bounds and Sanders would have won . |
| 20 | So whatever duty you were on — morning duty , that was all right , it was in the firm 's time , but if you were on afternoon duty , you would have to attend court and maybe go straight on afternoon duty . |
| 21 | Oisin , who knew a little of the theory of sorcery — ‘ Although I have never aspired to its practice , ’ he would have said modestly — knew that with the emerging of the first , the others would have gained strength and confidence . |
| 22 | I would have liked brothers and sisters but I do n't remember that I was ever lonely . |
| 23 | But I would have liked daughters because they can help me best in my work . |
| 24 | If he had made up his mind to see her again , then he would have moved heaven and earth to accomplish it . |
| 25 | It was all she wanted to know really , the truth — that if Fernando had truly loved her he would have moved heaven and earth to get her back . |
| 26 | Consequently , this young woman would have aroused curiosity because she was well dressed and , though no longer a girl , she was not wearing black . |
| 27 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 28 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 29 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 30 | Some writers even saw the transition from imagination to rationality as an evolutionary process ; Vico and Rousseau , for example , both suggested that natural man would have spouted poetry before he acquired rational speech . |