Example sentences of "would have [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 2 | There , she stamped hard on a bolt of panic that would have her turning swiftly about , and made herself press the porcelain doorbell . |
| 3 | There are , indeed , Christians of certain sects who would have nothing to do even with other Christians , who do not , for example , allow their children to bring their school friends home , to accept invitations to their parties , or to receive presents from them , even when those friends claim to come from committed Christian homes . |
| 4 | I would have you smile too , fair cousin , as it is my hope and one that you are privy to that you may soon be more to me than cousin . |
| 5 | Indeed what we are now seeing in some cases as ‘ the genuine article ’ are quality brewery refurbishments dating from the 1920s and 1930s , good Brewers ‘ Tudor , maybe , but hardly the stuff of the ancient , inglenooky world that the modern myth-makers — the brewers and the tourism industry — would have us believe still exists . |
| 6 | But if we are tempted to share that judgement and the prejudice behind it , the compiler of Genesis would have us think again . |