Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] they [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 2 | Many a bunch of vigilante bully-boys would have worked them over into lumps of fillet steak , twitching and staining the carpet . |
| 3 | This was never more threatened from the right than in the years before 1914 and a leader who had respected constitutional niceties at that time would have driven them out of the system where they could have been far more dangerous . |
| 4 | Yeah you should have told me I would have bought them out with me if you 'd said . |
| 5 | ‘ Had the care manager stuck to the initial referral alone , which was for respite care , she would have sorted them out for that , and that would have been it . ’ |
| 6 | When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |