Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So tomorrow would have to do , and the obvious move now was to see Mrs McDougall myself and get what might be called hard evidence from her . |
| 2 | Though , doubtless , man has always been a jackdaw , a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles , the recognition of ephemera as a legitimate and respectable sphere of collecting is a comparatively modern phenomenon , its devotees now having their own Society and special sales organised by reputable auctioneers who not long ago would have looked down their noses at the trivia they are now , in the name of Mammon , glad to catalogue . |
| 3 | Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were . |
| 4 | If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems . |
| 5 | Wright , who at 37 chortles about being one of NZ 's so-called ‘ young guns ’ , five years ago probably would have caught one which dropped just in front of him at gully . |
| 6 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 7 | He contrasted this approach with the methods of the best Russian and German directors , who almost certainly would have made a film in which the characters were less important than the system they would be condemning . |
| 8 | With today 's level of careers advice , a young man like Bill Larnach almost certainly would have applied to Cambridge . |
| 9 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 10 | Brigade officers said that but for the two men 's prompt action the woman almost certainly would have died . |
| 11 | If it fooled you and you were — how shall I put it ? — intimately involved then it most certainly would have fooled him ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ As I watch , ’ she wrote , ‘ and it gradually gets later , I can begin to understand about different lights and see colours in the scene which I never before would have imagined … ’ |
| 13 | Only someone who knew her very well would have noticed it . |