Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases .
2 The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires .
3 I would have said that way .
4 So , if you 'd been knitting , you would have knitted one way and slipped the other .
5 If he 'd tried to bottle it up he would have exploded one way or the other long before now .
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