Example sentences of "[v-ing] would [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is in general good , but a chapter on foregrounding would have made it so much better . |
| 2 | All at TODAY Racing would like to wish you a happy Christmas and a very profitable 1993 . |
| 3 | It seemed terribly wrong that her family were still struggling even now to keep their heads above water , that many like them were close to starvation , when the clothes she , Alice , was wearing would have kept them in food for at least half a year . |
| 4 | The peasants ' plough , according to critics , ‘ scratched the soil ’ but deep ploughing would have destroyed it . |
| 5 | It was easy to see that his roots went down fathoms deep in this soil , and transplanting would have destroyed everything in him that was of quality . |