Example sentences of "and would have [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Hung Feng-Chan danced round the front of the horse , trying to grab the halter , but Li Yuan shouted at him angrily and would have waved him away were he not clinging on dearly with both hands .
2 Even if it was the last thing she was ever able to do , Phoebe would have known it , and would have to notice her now .
3 Gabriel knew that Bathsheba blamed herself for Troy 's death , and would have blamed herself even more for Boldwood 's .
4 Shelley returned the medical bag , and would have left them together , but Miguel called her back .
5 She knew that Nîmes was a provincial city and would have preferred it not to be , seeing " provincial " in terms of the English nineteenth century novel , not of the Roman Provincia , Provence .
6 One or two offered sympathy and would have taken her along with them , but she stayed on with her head bowed until only Sarah and the fair-haired man were left .
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