Example sentences of "they would [adv] have [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the vote had gone against them today they 'd probably have flouted it even then . |
| 2 | But it was quite uncanny — three days earlier it would have been completely covered in snow and they 'd never have seen it : three days later it would have been stripped to a skeleton . ’ |
| 3 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 4 | They would soon have picked it up had she been erm sending secret messages telling him what to do , and it is a John Major cabinet . |
| 5 | In a statement released to journalists after the camp fell the KNU said that the government forces had crossed into Thailand and attacked the camp with artillery and ground forces from the rear : " If the Myanma soldiers had not crossed the border into Thailand and attacked the camp from the rear they would never have taken it " . |
| 6 | They would certainly have noticed it , but there are other qualities useful to a sovereign . |