Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [vb pp] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pursuing legal action would have cost them money they did n't have ( unless it meant selling their house which was not an option ) but doing nothing left them with the feeling that justice was n't being done . |
| 2 | A stranger would have taken them for brothers . |
| 3 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 4 | It was melancholy to see in the civil prisons of the metropolis , remarked Grant , men whose birth , education , manners and appearance would have fitted them for occupying the highest positions in society and consequently of proving benefactors to their species , spending no inconsiderable portion of the prime of life amid scenes of deepest degradation . |
| 5 | In the 14 previous games under his management , Coventry had drawn eight , five of them goalless , and another point would have edged them closer to safety . |
| 6 | Although , of course , it goes without saying another outcome would have pleased them better . " |
| 7 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 8 | A little foresight might have shown them that spending less on early hospitality and a bit more on the venue would have saved them time , money and trouble overall . |
| 9 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 10 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 11 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 12 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 13 | Our radar would have picked them up . |
| 14 | They could n't have done it too promptly or else she and the Archdeacon would have met them after their ill-fated call on the Dersinghams . |
| 15 | No amount of money would have stopped them , or is that if there was Laura Ashley on the walls they would n't bother spraying it ? |
| 16 | SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers . |
| 17 | If there had been any last doubts in Pascoe 's mind about whether Charlie Singer might be Zeno , Singer 's tone of voice would have dispelled them . |
| 18 | ‘ Anything 's possible , but if there was I think The News of the World would have found them by now . ’ |
| 19 | The old bitch would have told them . |
| 20 | If there were any Scots with the Pictish army in 685 Máeldúin would have sent them . |
| 21 | Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom … |
| 22 | Qualification for the European Championship in 1992 came after Romania drew with Bulgaria in their last match when a two-goal win would have sent them to Sweden instead of Scotland . |
| 23 | The IS coordinator would have liked them shelved separately , whereas other colleagues and the previous librarian had insisted on their integration into the book stock , as in a " real " library . |
| 24 | A second goal would have killed them off but we did n't manage to get it . |
| 25 | If they were , Bunny would have found them . |
| 26 | Their PS was 3.6 , i.e. six actual seats instead of the nine that accurate PR would have given them : not a large difference , but important for a small party . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | While the exhibition certainly illustrated ways in which fashion and furniture designers could create new products which were exciting , the tastes they displayed and , in the case of many items , the cost of the production would have removed them from the custom and purses of many older people . |
| 29 | Mr Jameson said : ‘ There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that they died for £5 — because one smoke detector would have alerted them . ’ |
| 30 | One did not make tea at half-past six in the evening like the ‘ working classes ’ , as her mother would have called them . |