Example sentences of "[noun] that would [verb] [vb pp] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled for a long moment into the raging eyes that would have struck him dead if they could . |
| 2 | CHINA 'S hardline vice-president Wang Zhen died yesterday , just days before a meeting of parliament that would have retired him from his post . |
| 3 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 4 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 5 | Hardy lacked the social confidence to make his way in professional circles , and also the formal education that would have enabled him to follow Horace Moule , his close friend from Dorchester days , to university and a career in the church . |
| 6 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 7 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |