Example sentences of "he would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He would have felt three times as virtuous , ’ I said , and the barman looked at me blankly . |
| 32 | He is — was — an extremely competent forensic biologist , but I doubt whether he would have gone any higher . |
| 33 | He would have remained unpaid , and the loser in the matter . |
| 34 | A former member of his Household , reviewing the collapse of the Wales 's marriage , sincerely believes that he would have remained single if he had been given the choice . |
| 35 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 36 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 37 | Whether he would have kept any such agreement is another question , but his capacity for resistance would have been much reduced . |
| 38 | If any Matson citizen had taken an Italian holiday that year , he would have kept very quin about it . |
| 39 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
| 40 | Or he would have said that to her mother . |
| 41 | But he 's not saying that right , you 'd 've thought he , he 'd actually come up and say er er he would have said that for , you know , for his sake and also for the good of the Party . |
| 42 | He would have said much more , but Brown Owl , who had crawled under the fence , hurried to them and put her arms round poor , scared Mandy . |
| 43 | He would have said those nomads were just like beetles . ’ |
| 44 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |
| 45 | Earlier Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke admitted that if it had been his decision in 1953 he would have reprieved 19-year-old Bentley from the gallows . |
| 46 | He was glad he had n't gone on to the Reserve after the Armistice , as Tubby had — though , if he had , he would have stayed retired . |
| 47 | He would have recognized French or German , without being able to speak either language . |
| 48 | I was thinking to myself that he would have blown most of it on horses and strong drink . |
| 49 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 50 | But I do n't think he would have liked another person to know . |
| 51 | I think he would have liked another , but instead he pulled himself slowly to his feet . |
| 52 | He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate . |
| 53 | It is therefore doubtful whether he would have reached this result in the absence of a general trust clause , for it is precisely that which transforms the words retentis tibi hortis meis into a trust . |
| 54 | Presumably Mr Newman 's mind was on his upcoming Bologna trip , maybe even on Risotto alla Vitale , or he would have swatted this vulgar solecism right out of the ground . |
| 55 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 56 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 57 | He was caught in the dark street by left-wing ruffians — those whom he would have called Jewish Communists . |
| 58 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 59 | ‘ He would have played last weekend had it been an international . ’ |
| 60 | Jesus forecast that before the cock crowed twice he would have denied any knowledge of Jesus three times . |