Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 2 | Richard would never have left anything behind anywhere , or , if he had , he would have gone back for it . |
| 3 | Mrs Murphy would be in the kitchen , Barnes would have gone back for his supper . |
| 4 | Of course , if granny had heard the shot it would have been all up , but mother would have covered up for him — to the last . ’ |
| 5 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think I would have waited around for all this if I had ? ’ |
| 7 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 8 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 9 | I mean , I do n't think Mary and Joseph would have set out for Bethlehem yet . |
| 10 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |