Example sentences of "would have [verb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 2 | If Mrs Thatcher had been on the programme she would have blown the whole idea of fairness out of the water . |
| 3 | The most open arrangement was to inform a rich suitor that if he wanted a date , he would have to take the whole troupe out . |
| 4 | Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again . |
| 5 | But once it was understood that Europeans might hope to reach the fabled East by travelling West , then explorers could reasonably hope that before very long they would have mapped the whole surface of the globe . |
| 6 | Her husband would have spent the whole day cooking for the steady stream of customers in the small , steamy back kitchen below and she felt that he needed a break . |
| 7 | If no preliminary issue had been ordered , the trial judge would have tried the whole action and decided the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue . |
| 8 | Er if it had gone over would have thrown the whole lot out of er out of gear . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , she knew , but she wanted things hushed up , so when Mam said she was marrying Henry she did n't protest over much , because Mam was in such a state then she would have brought the whole thing to light . |
| 10 | Knowing Esther , she would have executed the whole devious scheme with the utmost care . |
| 11 | Had Red Reg turned up here , one felt certain they would have set the whole menagerie on him . |
| 12 | This would have excluded the whole ecclesiastical section of landholding society from the ordinary complex of feudal relationships , and in doing this , it would have threatened the cohesion of a kingdom in a way that no earlier reforming decree had done . |