Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 2 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 3 | But Steve would have hit her with the truth — not intentionally , he was n't cruel by nature , but simply with his down-to-earth approach to everything and everyone . |
| 4 | He would have defended her with lawyers against any attempt of her husband 's to get her back , but there was none ; perhaps , as he himself had barked out in jest , Arkwright had got himself a mistress . |
| 5 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 6 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
| 7 | ‘ But I like to think that if I did n't do it , someone else would have done it with a lot less taste and love for the countryside . ’ |
| 8 | If it had , she would have handled it with a decisiveness that left no room for misunderstandings . |
| 9 | Whether he would have made it with his fairly anaemic academic record at Wellington is another matter . |
| 10 | He would have passed it with flying colours . |
| 11 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |
| 12 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 13 | He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him . |
| 14 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 15 | English and French smugglers would have provided us with enough of pilots and we had indeed already a few … |
| 16 | Personal experience , if it happened , would have left them with a deeply embedded memory of an acutely unpleasant incident . |
| 17 | It would have left them with , with no mechanism to go forward . |
| 18 | ‘ We have talking for a long time about how the company might change structurally , and many of Alan Gordon Walker 's proposals would have left me with a job that I did n't want to do , ’ she said . |
| 19 | My first thought was that had Richard Hannay materialised at that moment , I would have issued him with a help form . |