Example sentences of "they would have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that spirit and her inventive brain , she should have been a boy , and together they would have run the world . |
| 2 | But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand . |
| 3 | Some teachers said that they would have completed the questionnaire had they been asked to do so anonymously . |
| 4 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 5 | Those behind the Feb. 3-4 coup attempt [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , he said , followed a " totalitarian and extremist ideology " ; they would have prevented the holding of the local elections due later in the year , and would have introduced a period of " silence and persecution " . |
| 6 | To do this , they would have to examine the parts in relation to each other since they work together to maintain the organism . |
| 7 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 8 | They wanted to know how much help they would have to give the Sutton pupils . |
| 9 | Only they would have possessed the necessary authority and material wealth at the time to take prime land — the site of a major trading warehouse — and transform it into a dog cemetery . |
| 10 | I mean you like the ordinary houses are , there 's no room and you could not bend the coffin with a person in it so they would have to take the window or the bedroom or wherever the corpse was |
| 11 | If they travelled alone or in couples , it was of course dear William who met them , carried their luggage , bought their tickets , but once at the docks , they would have to do the rest of the trip alone . |
| 12 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
| 13 | Their digging has cleared right down to the gravel tidy — without it they would have rendered the undergravel filter quite useless . |
| 14 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 15 | When she arrived , minus dogs this time , as they would have destroyed the solemnity — Flora showed her into the back room . |
| 16 | However , the case of R v South Glamorgan Appeals Committee ex parte Evans ( 1984 ) showed that when looking at individual claims for a school place , it was necessary for an appeal committee to determine first whether the admission of one further child would prejudice efficient education at the school ( with the onus on the LEA to show that it would ) : if they concluded that it would not , they would have to allow the appeal . |
| 17 | It was obvious they would have to abandon the run of Caesar and Cleopatra and close the theatre until an actor could be found to portray Hook . |
| 18 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 19 | An incurable optimist , she was sure that they would find some way of making their living , but she knew that her sister was afraid they would n't — and in that case , of course , they would have to let the cottage , and separate after all . |
| 20 | However this was not a material irregularity ; the Court had heard the tape and had the jury done so , it would have confirmed their views , expressed in the verdict of guilty , because they would have heard the gruff , bass voice of the appellant , as described by the victim in his evidence , and any lingering hesitation they might have felt would have been dispelled . |
| 21 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 22 | But once it was understood that Europeans might hope to reach the fabled East by travelling West , then explorers could reasonably hope that before very long they would have mapped the whole surface of the globe . |
| 23 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 24 | The report alleged that warnings of a terrorist bombing went unheeded because they would have exposed the " drugs-for-hostages " deal . |
| 25 | If these had been transferable to SDLP , they would have ensured the election of both O'Hanlon and News each with about a quota of votes . |
| 26 | There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened . |
| 27 | Against this they would have to offset the cost of credit control which , in the light of these figures , would still be profitable . |
| 28 | Then they would have to sell the farm . |
| 29 | To settle this , they decided that they would have to improve the detector still more . |
| 30 | ‘ If they 'd done that , they would have won the Championship . ’ |