Example sentences of "[conj] then [pers pn] would have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we could find that all of them were worth doing and then we would have to consider comparative advantages . |
| 2 | And then we would have to have another think |
| 3 | She would issue the new instructions regarding strangers and then she would have to see Mr Lee about a permanent bodyguard here in the house , someone who would blend in … a manservant . |
| 4 | If she ever believed that of him , she would weaken , give in to the powerful attraction , and then she would have to admit there were emotions behind that attraction , emotions that would lead her into heartbreak . |
| 5 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 6 | For someone to come and clean , and then you would have to pay V A T on it . |
| 7 | Well , this is a slightly more complicated application , where you 're not just selling for example straight from stock , but you take orders from customers , and then you would have to manufacture , perhaps to buy in , to assemble , some sort of goods for sending out . |
| 8 | In those days , the manure was distributed on the fields in heaps from a horse and cart and then you would have to follow behind with a handfork to rake it and spread it evenly . |
| 9 | It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden . |
| 10 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 11 | But then we would have to find separate words for every action or event denoted by different lexical verbs : a mammoth and unnecessary task . |
| 12 | But then it would have to face up to the fact that , by comparison with much of the rest of the world , it would grow steadily poorer with no chance of arresting that trend until well into the next century . |
| 13 | Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive . |