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

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1 Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out .
2 Not only would he have to destroy all evidence of his old body , but somehow transport himself planetside without raising suspicion .
3 No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them .
4 How would he have reacted if she had really been ill ?
5 How would he have felt , he sometimes asked himself , if he had married a woman who set herself against his ethnic origins ?
6 How would he have taken the news of this sneaky , hole-in-the-corner business ?
7 " But how would he have got into the Biology Lab , then ? "
8 And where would he have taken her ?
9 But then why would he have to go to the morgue for an identification , he would n't know what he looked like .
10 Er can explain er why , you know , why would he have to die ?
11 Why else would he have remained a bachelor ?
12 How else would he have known ? ’
13 Never would he have committed the outrage of addressing his landlady by her first name .
14 Never would he have expected encounters with an assault force of Chelonians and the galaxy 's most notorious criminal in the space of a day .
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