Example sentences of "he would [verb] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There were n't really many single men around , and he 'd have had to be a pretty outstanding young man to take her in hand . " |
| 2 | It is a cliché to say he died where he would have wanted to be , but true nonetheless . |
| 3 | To someone living in Sao Paulo he would have appeared to be crying for no reason at all . |
| 4 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |
| 5 | He was asked if he had known about the attrocities committed under Stalin in the 1930s , and whether he would have liked to be returned to the Soviet Union labelled traitor at the end of the war . |
| 6 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 7 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 8 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 9 | When he came to the car , Ana had established herself in the back with Mitch and he would have needed to be extremely unpleasant to order them out . |
| 10 | He said he would have expected to be consulted . |
| 11 | He would have had to be as different as T. S. Eliot ; and there 's an end of that speculation ! |
| 12 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |