Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] any " in BNC.

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1 Anthony Hope would hardly have supported any grandiose claims for his tales of Ruritania .
2 It 's staff would probably have decried any such connection with the upmarket skin magazine 's Hugh Hefner , but it was there none the less .
3 Early on that morning that very same morning in October 1913 , anyone walking or motoring down Westfield Drive , Boston , Massachusetts , would never have given any of the houses a second glance , so ordinary were they , and none more so than number 1015 , a clapboard house like all the others in the street , only one which was in even more urgent need of repainting than most of its neighbours .
4 He reaffirmed the belief he held then , that the use of soft drugs did not necessarily lead to a progression to hard drugs , although he conceded that he would never have encountered any other drug if he had not become involved with smoking marijuana .
5 Tristan would never have won any prizes as an exponent of the haute cuisine .
6 Tony took the lead , and with a succinctness that would certainly have satisfied any military man , said :
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