Example sentences of "would [verb] killed " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He would have killed him , ’ she said slowly in English and then reverted to Italian again . |
| 32 | Several times he witnessed strokes which would have killed or maimed if they had been allowed to connect with flesh and bone . |
| 33 | And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away . |
| 34 | Of course , the bull would have killed him had I not been there . ’ |
| 35 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 36 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 37 | Nevertheless , the low sea level would have killed existing corals , which do not survive above low tide level as a rule , so that there ought to be discontinuities in the reefs , and , if those who believe in progressively lower interglacial sea levels are correct , the reefs should exhibit a terraced or stepped form . |
| 38 | ‘ I do n't believe Maurin would have killed her any more than I think he killed Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 39 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 40 | A length of brown satin would have killed him . |
| 41 | ‘ Do you know , Corbett , if you had insinuated what you are doing now before I became a friar , I would have killed you . |
| 42 | They would have killed us . |
| 43 | Because the way he was wiring them to start with , would have killed somebody in the end . |
| 44 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins . |
| 45 | ‘ If I could have in any way , I would have killed him . ’ |
| 46 | A second goal would have killed them off but we did n't manage to get it . |
| 47 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 48 | ‘ So you ca n't think of anybody who would have killed the Admiral or Mr Trueman ? ’ |
| 49 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 50 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
| 51 | I would have killed myself . |
| 52 | She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway . |
| 53 | Yes , United should have seen it and a third strike would have killed Charlton off , but Oxford began to lose fire power . |
| 54 | A goal here would have killed Blackburn off . |
| 55 | If they lost , she would have killed them . |
| 56 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |
| 57 | Bowbazaar links Calcutta 's business district with the hugely-crowded Sealdah suburban railway terminus and an explosion of this intensity during daytime would have killed hundreds of people , he said . |
| 58 | Such a blast during the day would have killed hundreds , police said . |
| 59 | Well you 'd you 'd think they would n't want them on the road cos if they had an accident the people would get killed , they 'd just |