Example sentences of "[coord] it would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , 209 all out seemed a fair performance by England , or it would have done had more of their batsmen scored some runs . |
| 2 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 3 | ‘ I had n't hit the wickets for a while and I was n't going to throw it because it was a rather tense moment and it would have given away at least one run if I had missed ’ Rhodes recalled . |
| 4 | It 's from the Bible , actually , and it would have formed a small part of what I wanted to say to you this morning ; ‘ Do n't make friends with people who have hot , violent tempers . |
| 5 | When she had taught Sarah to read and write it had been her textbook , and it would have broken her heart if she 'd heard such a tirade after all her patient teaching . |
| 6 | Artai was full of petty cruelties , and it would have amused him to allow Sidacai to wonder if he was being taken to his execution . |
| 7 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 8 | Since the stock market crash at the end of that year , policy has however been dogged by an excessive fear of recession , and it would have compounded this mistake to have failed to raise British base rates to 15 per cent this week . |
| 9 | And it would have to rain for months to make any difference . |
| 10 | Beth had heard the manner in which the old man had addressed her husband , and it would have gladdened her heart to hear him snap back ; just for once to tell the old villain to ‘ Go to Hell ! ’ |
| 11 | The mount for the .50 calibre machine-gun was still on the vehicle but the malais had found a use for the Browning elsewhere , I think because they also used the jeep to drive foreign journos around and it would have vitiated the claims to have pacified Danu if they 'd left it on . |
| 12 | Only a fraction harder and it would have made it . |
| 13 | And it would have made no difference whatsoever to last night 's crash . |
| 14 | ‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more . |
| 15 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 16 | Again , the stopping would have required the instructor 's braking if the pupil had not braked , and it would have required the pupil 's braking if the instructor had not braked . |
| 17 | A fleet of 60 French and Spanish ships could not easily be concentrated , and it would have to fight in the Channel against an English fleet of 45 of the line … |
| 18 | Faldo has suffered a final round jinx this year and it would have finished in disaster had Norman 's putt fallen . |
| 19 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 20 | And it would have had to be a lie anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 22 | It was too soon to leave , the atmosphere was too tense , and it would have to become calm again or to revisit would n't be possible . |
| 23 | But when the owners later asked for permission to erect a temporary office , they were told the greenhouse itself should have had permission … and it would have to come down . |
| 24 | " He could n't have been put in from either bank , because the body was weighted , and it would have sunk in shallow water . |
| 25 | To play the social contract game successfully , therefore , when the prescriptions of the contract are culturally rather than genetically specified , an animal would have to think of others as having motivations similar to its own , so that it could foresee their future behaviour , and it would have to communicate symbolically . |
| 26 | And it would have shown on the certificate , the time of birth — it 's only done for multiple births . |
| 27 | Stalin would not have been suspected , or connected with his murder , and it would have provided an excellent reason for the purges , which Stalin began due to his paranoia of being replaced . |
| 28 | Well , in a way it was n't dangerous I 'd say , it was a very worked plan and it would have worked if the letter had got there , so I know it was going to work and I would not say it was dangerous . |
| 29 | He could have stuck pins into himself and it would have taken ten seconds for his body to complain . |
| 30 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |