Example sentences of "[subord] he would have [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Nordern would , yes , although he would no more have refused than he would have tried to jump over the Wall . |
| 2 | Allen looked as if he would have liked to have said more , but the presence of Meryl evidently constrained him . |
| 3 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He supposed Mr Rose was interested in finding out if he , Marcus , " was " homosexual , and whilst he would have liked to know that himself , and remembered the one explicitly sexual moment of his relations with Lucas with tremors of disgust and anxiety , he had no wish to go into that with Mr Rose . |
| 6 | ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him . |
| 7 | It is anyway doubtful whether he would have dared to take things further . |
| 8 | I telephoned again early next morning before he would have gone to work , but again there was no reply . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He poured wine and brought it across the room to Owen 's chair , pressing him back brusquely when he would have risen to receive the cup . |
| 11 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 12 | So , much as he would have liked to ride for Perthshire with his friends , in especial Mariot , he left them , to turn up Eskside , but promising to come to Doune before long . |
| 13 | Much as he would have liked to try to rescue Murray , he recognised that to be out of the question . |
| 14 | Only a man as blank as he would have failed to see the hollowness of my enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness . |
| 16 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 17 | ( as he would have had to learn not to call it ) |
| 18 | He said this without looking at the Substitute , though he would have liked to see his reaction . |
| 19 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 20 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |