Example sentences of "he would [adv] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd just have to accept it too . |
| 2 | He 'd just have taken it . ’ |
| 3 | On the contrary , he 'd simply have found it amusing . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 5 | Francis understood all of this , of course , or he 'd never have done it . |
| 6 | He 'd never live to enjoy it . |
| 7 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |
| 8 | He could not stop the rain now , just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season , without serious danger to his own health . |
| 9 | If the Leader of the House had had the foresight in those early days to see the merit in that legislation , he would not have felt it necessary tonight to move a savage guillotine motion to curtail debate on the measure . |
| 10 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 11 | He would not have liked it if she seemed to be saying that they could get away any time they wanted to . |
| 12 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |
| 13 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 14 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 15 | He would not have put it past her to make a kind of bargain on that basis . |
| 16 | He said of course he did , he would not have suggested it otherwise . |
| 17 | He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt . |
| 18 | Behind Boswell 's published account of his fidgety stay at the Mackinnons ' — he felt so lethargic that he did not encourage Johnson to talk so that he would not have to write it down — lies some oddity . |
| 19 | He had a gun , of course , but now she thought he would not have used it . |
| 20 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 21 | He would not have bought it had he been by himself but Maidstone assured him it was the right choice — ‘ Absolutely first rate , dear fellow . ’ |
| 22 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
| 23 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 24 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 25 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 26 | He could n't say for sure ; when I mentioned a shot , he said he would n't have noticed it particularly . |
| 27 | His father looked pale , Jack thought , his eye slightly swollen but maybe he would n't have noticed it if he had n't been involved . |
| 28 | he would n't have to see it , he could just know it 's there but then why does he say , I imagine it |
| 29 | He would n't have believed it , of course ; he 'd likely have thought he was mad . |
| 30 | The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’ |