Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 2 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have recognized you the moment I saw you , ’ Graham said . |
| 4 | If they 'd told the Blakeys a week ago the Blakeys would have said what the clergyman had said : that Stephen 's father could not have been responsible . |
| 5 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 6 | That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters . |
| 7 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 8 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 9 | Even without the simple affirmation his face would have given her the answer ; he looked pale and drawn , as if he had slept even less than she had . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’ |
| 11 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
| 12 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 13 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 14 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 16 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
| 17 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 18 | The call would have given someone the chance to replace the spare set in the security cupboard here . |
| 19 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 20 | The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible . |
| 21 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 22 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 23 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 24 | ‘ The killing would have happened whatever the population of the prison . |
| 25 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |
| 26 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |
| 27 | ‘ Otherwise you would have spared yourself the journey . |
| 28 | If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced . |
| 29 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 30 | Not only did the Bills fail to get the win which would have won them the AFC East division and secured home advantage throughout the play-offs , but finished the game with quarterback Jim Kelly nursing a knee ligament injury . |