Example sentences of "would have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had screamed or tried to escape he would have battered me to death . |
| 2 | At that time there were two or three hundred Viscounts flying in various parts of the world , and to have grounded all Viscounts because the wings had come off in flight in this accident would have contributed nothing to air safety . |
| 3 | In that case , we would have to refer them to Ann Bodine 's excellent essay ‘ Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar ’ . |
| 4 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 5 | High heels would have elevated it to borderline evening wear but she had n't brought heels with her so she decided on gold leather flip-flops . |
| 6 | And if Thomas had been any older I do n't know quite how I would have explained it to him . |
| 7 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 8 | He would have liked her to be indebted to him for something . |
| 9 | The German urban commercial and industrial middle classes , unlike the rural peasantry , were far from being the cowed , feudal illiterates that the Junkers would have liked them to be . |
| 10 | ‘ She would have liked them to be contributed to his regimental museum . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I worked hard on my whole game last week at home , but it 's not as good as I would have liked it to be . ’ |
| 12 | She would have to mention it to John . |
| 13 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 14 | He would have said it to no one else . |
| 15 | From now on , he would have to devote himself to private achievements . |
| 16 | She knew what he wanted before he spoke , and also knew she would have to give it to him . |
| 17 | ‘ I said I would have to teach you to be beautiful , and I do n't intend to fail . ’ |
| 18 | Qualification for the European Championship in 1992 came after Romania drew with Bulgaria in their last match when a two-goal win would have sent them to Sweden instead of Scotland . |
| 19 | Had I still been suspicious of a haemorrhage I would have sent him to Edinburgh for a brain scan . ’ |
| 20 | And er great big pulleys with three inch leather belts , if they 'd have done it in , er do it in these days and the factory inspector would have cut him to pieces . |
| 21 | She had hoped Travis would have kept it to himself . |
| 22 | And that would have led them to their own Special Branch registry , where there must be a file on his career as a freelance ; it was inevitable after that damned publicity . |
| 23 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 24 | I would have given anything to be able to get out of this . |
| 25 | She wanted to refuse — would have given anything to simply walk away and leave him standing there . |
| 26 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 27 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 28 | Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her . |
| 29 | If , however , C.N.L. were to fail , they would have exposed themselves to the additional financial perils involved in advancing an insupportable plea of justification . |
| 30 | My editor , Sally O'Sullivan , was the first person to ask me to write anything other than my name on an Access receipt , and I would have followed her to World 's End . |