Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John burped noisily , rolled on one side and , if Athelstan had not been there , would have fallen completely off the bed . |
| 2 | In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity . |
| 3 | At first he would have remained chiefly in the care of women , learning how to behave , how to speak in a courtly fashion , when to keep silent , how to play and sing . |
| 4 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |
| 5 | Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire . |
| 6 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 7 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 8 | But for the military prowess of the Duke of Parma , a Spanish general who overcame the city 's resistance in the 1580s , Antwerp would have ended up in the United Provinces ( today 's Holland ) rather than the Spanish Netherlands ( today 's Belgium ) . |
| 9 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 10 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 11 | They would have clattered upstairs along the gallery and woken both me and Dame Martha . ’ |
| 12 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 13 | Nor is there any reason to assume that the system would have adjusted smoothly to the onset of overaccumulation had the oil crisis not occurred . |
| 14 | From what he could remember of Luke , the boy would have fitted well into the Waffen SS . |
| 15 | If we had been alone , he would have complained bitterly about the hotel . |
| 16 | I would have moved slightly to the right , I w I was the first objective while you 're looking is to get out of the door . |
| 17 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 18 | The question still remains , however , as to whether the assisted migrant workers would have moved anyhow without the financial aid of labour mobility programmes . |
| 19 | ‘ I make it quite clear anything I say I would have said regardless of the result of this present case , ’ he told the court . |
| 20 | If an assailant had struck from behind , he would have toppled forward over the rail . |
| 21 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 22 | Julia flinched as she heard that and wondered how she herself would have stood up to the kind of life Raffaella was describing . |
| 23 | Fellow Irishman Mick Fitzgerald would have stood out as the ‘ find of the season ’ in any normal year . |
| 24 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 25 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 26 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 27 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 28 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 29 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
| 30 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |