Example sentences of "then [pron] would [vb infin] have " in BNC.
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1 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
2 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
3 | ‘ That was because I assumed that the business would go to Francis and then I would have had no say in it . ’ |
4 | It 's just — well , it 's just that if whatever killed Paula was a software virus rather than an accident , then someone would have had to infect the suitbrain . |
5 | Then you would stop having these foolish dreams . ’ |
6 | But then she would have had no time for taking walks . |
7 | If by note , then she would have had to get a scribe to read it to her . |
8 | And then we would have to have another think |
9 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
10 | If it was just for money , then we would have had a ransom demand by now . ’ |
11 | If polar bears are dominant in the Arctic , then there would seem to have been no need for them to evolve a white-coloured form of camouflage . |
12 | If he brought her any more , then they would have to have a little talk . |
13 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
14 | She was giving herself another two years , then it would have had to start for her , the conventions and the frills . |
15 | Further , the appellant complains that by ruling in the way that he did on the main issue , the assistant recorder effectively left before the jury evidence prejudicial to the appellant which was relevant to counts 1 and 6 only : had he ruled in favour of the appellant on the motion to quash then he would have had to consider the matter and ( by inference ) would have exercised his discretion to discharge the jury and order a new trial on the remaining counts . |
16 | But then he would have had to have been more obtuse than he was not to have known already . |