Example sentences of "he [verb] would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | and he 'd have come home all black and dirty , and the coal he made would have covered everything with soot |
2 | Marxism and racialism are ‘ rather modern ’ , as Waugh would have put it , mindful that the medieval schoolmen and Renaissance Jesuits he idolised would have seen no merit in either of them . |
3 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
4 | Is it not clear that the so-called social measures that he rejected would have led to unemployment and the loss of jobs ? |
5 | Bérégovoy had let the budget deficit rise alarmingly rather than raise taxes , which he feared would have cut both demand and the Socialists ' vote . |
6 | Granting such an appeal he felt would have endangered respect for the law . |
7 | Whatever he did would have gone down well with Quigley . |
8 | What he did would have looked classy even in today 's harder , faster game of thirty odd years later . |
9 | The Netherlands Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , on Feb. 14 halted a $1,500 million sale of four submarines to Taiwan , which he said would have breached a 1984 accord with China [ see pp. 33036-37 ] . |
10 | Had Johnson walked Drummossie he would have had to contemplate the events there , and the long reverberations of 1746 , and the gloatings and celebrations that took place annually in Inverness long afterwards , and since he was chronically and constitutionally unable not to give an opinion , whatever he said would have landed him in difficulty with somebody . |