Example sentences of "he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I only did what anyone else who loved him would have done . |
| 3 | On the phone the other day you said that if only you and Dennis had had children then something of him would have survived . |
| 4 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money . |
| 7 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 8 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 9 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 10 | ‘ Not that he 'd have lent the carriage — or freed me — unless it was entirely convenient to him . |
| 11 | He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening . |
| 12 | Six months ago he 'd have gone for it , maybe written back to some of them , seen it as a way out of the rut that his life had become … but not now . |
| 13 | A couple of feet more water , and he 'd have gone on being carried along near the bottom , and safely out of sight . |
| 14 | " Then if the doctor 's right , and he was killed around 11 pm. , he 'd have gone in about midnight . " |
| 15 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 16 | He 'd have gone a bit |
| 17 | what before his exam for his test ? , he 'd have gone for his medical and it was found on his |
| 18 | He would have erm , if , he 'd seen the erm those two bi bits in that door , or there 's some o of a sort of slightly wider than other a little bit , he 'd have gone ! |
| 19 | He 'd have to say yes , because he 's sorry for us , I heard him tell Richard we were no better than waifs of the storm , and we should ruin the upholstery , and be taking advantage of his kindness . " |
| 20 | But it was n't trash : I 'm sure that if he 'd had long enough , he 'd have said exactly what I wrote ! ’ |
| 21 | You 'd think he 'd have said . |
| 22 | Fabia went down to dinner that night and could n't help thinking that , even though it was certain that he was n't staying in the same hotel , or he 'd have said so , perhaps he might decide to have his dinner there . |
| 23 | But , as Bruiser might say , if God had wanted me to be a diplomat , he 'd have painted pinstripes down my backside . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd have to carry on as usual or else it would look suspicious . ’ |
| 25 | He spoilt Rose that much he 'd have ruined her if I 'd let him . |
| 26 | He 'd have to leave Lee now ; up there in the wood on his own . |
| 27 | He 'd have to leave the window slightly open and hope to be disturbed if anything happened . |
| 28 | John Craddock who feels he 'd have to leave his home of twenty-five years because of the noise if the north Oxford bypass went aheadsums up the feelings of many in a plea to the government on its transport policy : |
| 29 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 30 | Chris said she laughed and he had to rush out of the house or he 'd have killed her … . |