Example sentences of "that he would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking to myself that he would have blown most of it on horses and strong drink . |
| 2 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 3 | He confides that he would have liked to have ‘ taken a crack at another big public objective , . |
| 4 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |
| 5 | We telephoned Mr Hector Charlesworth but he was , as yet , unable to take any remedial action , although I had the distinct impression that he would have liked to do so . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was in no doubt that my lover had talent , but I had no doubt , too , that he would have remained either in relative obscurity or at the mercy of the likes of M. Chaillot and others had he not come across me . |
| 8 | and we 've , we 've alleged in the pleading that he made that he would have suffered erm either all or some part of loses would of been avoided , but that depends upon the facts and we 're |
| 9 | Nothing memorable happened at their only meeting , in a Gloucestershire sanatorium , though Malcolm Muggeridge once remarked that he would have loved to see and hear them together , and it is still open to anyone to write an imaginary conversation of the event . |
| 10 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 11 | And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away . |
| 12 | It can scarcely be imagined that he would have opposed the Philadelphia Museum 's immensely well-conceived plan . |
| 13 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 14 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 15 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 16 | This was Luke — and , if he had intended to break their date , it was highly unlikely that he would have sent her flowers to confirm it only that morning … |
| 17 | It was crucial to his remarkable success in winning the nomination of his party ; without that asset it is most unlikely that he would have secured his narrow victory over Gerald Ford , but it was his insistence on remaining an outsider in spirit that limited his accomplishments in office . |
| 18 | But there is some evidence of his association with liberals at Cambridge which must be mentioned briefly at this point , since it seems rather unlikely that he would have visited France in 1790 and again in 1791–2 if he had no sympathy with what was going on there . |
| 19 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 20 | The judge applied a multiplier of 12 years ; and he said that he would have given a multiplier of ten , but he gave 12 to protect against the possibility of future inflation . |
| 21 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sure that he would have done — the East End is not the safest place for a beautiful and rich girl of good family to live . ’ |
| 23 | He knew perfectly well that they were not very good prizes and that he would have done better to lay out his money at Woolworth 's , but he did not wish to hear Emmie telling him so . |
| 24 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 25 | If Montini had immediately succeeded Pius XII , it is unlikely that he would have called a Council . |
| 26 | Well once he 'd lost that he would have lost the |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 29 | She 'd been so certain that he would have contacted her by now . |
| 30 | Although he was engaged in a heated discussion with a journalist about the way the tour of Korea had been reported , it is unlikely that he would have said anything that he did not think his employer , the Princess of Wales , wanted known . |