Example sentences of "he [vb past] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he 'd have come home all black and dirty , and the coal he made would have covered everything with soot |
| 2 | Marxism and racialism are ‘ rather modern ’ , as Waugh would have put it , mindful that the medieval schoolmen and Renaissance Jesuits he idolised would have seen no merit in either of them . |
| 3 | Is it not clear that the so-called social measures that he rejected would have led to unemployment and the loss of jobs ? |
| 4 | The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power . |
| 5 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 6 | Bérégovoy had let the budget deficit rise alarmingly rather than raise taxes , which he feared would have cut both demand and the Socialists ' vote . |
| 7 | Granting such an appeal he felt would have endangered respect for the law . |
| 8 | What he did would have looked classy even in today 's harder , faster game of thirty odd years later . |
| 9 | Whatever he did would have gone down well with Quigley . |
| 10 | A few years later he discovered , to his fury , that the painters ' prices had soared and the paintings that he despised would have been immensely valuable . |
| 11 | Had Johnson walked Drummossie he would have had to contemplate the events there , and the long reverberations of 1746 , and the gloatings and celebrations that took place annually in Inverness long afterwards , and since he was chronically and constitutionally unable not to give an opinion , whatever he said would have landed him in difficulty with somebody . |
| 12 | The Netherlands Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , on Feb. 14 halted a $1,500 million sale of four submarines to Taiwan , which he said would have breached a 1984 accord with China [ see pp. 33036-37 ] . |