Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would fit more naturally into an old silent movie than he would have done on Tiswas . |
| 2 | If Sid chose to hang on , he could now sell his shares for around 85% more than he paid — a far better deal than he would have got buying the market as a whole . |
| 3 | ‘ No organisation , no individual , could have threatened his security , but Najibullah , because of the threat of the restoration of peace and the fear that he would have to answer for some of his past deeds , tried to flee , ’ said Mr Wakil . |
| 4 | First were the ‘ political realities ’ that faced him ; second , he said , was his fear that he would have to campaign negatively in order to succeed . |
| 5 | Louis examined Trent with less emotion than he would have given a sandwich . |
| 6 | Eamonn Melaugh told the mayor that he would have to take the consequences of any violence caused in trying to clear the chamber . |
| 7 | In such a case the plaintiff could recover the extra cost of the special equipment , but could not recover the basic cost of the car if he would have needed one in any event . |
| 8 | It was an expression that still gave him pleasure and he would have used it to describe his own limited grasp of the subject , but it would have been wasted on the sparrow-sized man across the big desk from him . |
| 9 | Barthes 's was a very modern mind but he would have liked the idea of being one day accepted into this tiny pantheon of local literary notables . |
| 10 | The man 's tone was dismissive , and Jaq had to allow him more credit for flexibility than he would have supposed . |
| 11 | But sometimes the expenditure will result in the plaintiff acquiring an asset of a type that he would have required even if he had not been disabled , although he would not have required one with the special attributes of the asset in question . |
| 12 | In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk . |
| 13 | Where the defendant claims that as a result of intoxication , he did not realise that his conduct was or might be regarded as threatening , abusive or insulting , the magistrates must make a determination as to what they considered that the defendant would have realised had he been sober , and the conclusion that he would have realised will be virtually inevitable . |
| 14 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 15 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 16 | The Darlington inquest heard Mr Still , of Newholme Estate , Station Town , Wingate , died from cardio-respiratory failure and he would have become unconscious soon after impact . |
| 17 | She would need some encouragement from her husband and he would have to display some discipline , ( a ) to provide the information for preparation of the budgets , and ( b ) to accept the result of the exercise and implement any necessary restrictions in buying , etc . |
| 18 | His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself . |
| 19 | Paul Lane , watching , wondered if there would come a point when he would have to step between them . |
| 20 | But there is no guarantee that he would have succeeded . |
| 21 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 22 | But Stuart is so effervescent , so bloody méthode champenoise nowadays that I could have gone down on my knees to his wife and he would have accepted my explanation that I was tacking up her hem . |
| 23 | Freddie resolutely refused to rehearse with water because he would have had to drink glass after glass and , being a bitter expert , he refused to drink bottled beer . |
| 24 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 25 | Sometimes his decisions are made on grounds of convenience : after most newspapers in Britain committed contempt of court over the arrest of " Yorkshire Ripper " Peter Sutcliffe , the Attorney decided against prosecuting on the ground that he would have to put dozens of editors in the dock . |
| 26 | His ankles were unbound ; it made him think he was higher off the ground than he would have liked . |
| 27 | I telephoned again early next morning before he would have gone to work , but again there was no reply . |
| 28 | If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was . |
| 29 | Such a tale as he would have to tell would be instantly dismissed , the court being in the frame of mind it was . |
| 30 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |