Example sentences of "then [pron] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
2 | Did you watch the v video when the the terrier men having a fox fought for its life , okay to have killed it there and then I would have accepted . |
3 | And then I would have made my own judgement about her death . |
4 | I mean , then I would have achieved something definite . |
5 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
6 | Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement . |
7 | If he had n't , then I would have to retire ! |
8 | Now had it actually been infidelity — me having watched said movie from the back row of the local Ritzy with my bit on the side at my side — then I would have deserved whatever was coming to me . |
9 | Accordingly I formally move it , but if the a that acceptance is not forthcoming , then I would have to deliver my speech . |
10 | If men naturally enjoy mathematical stimuli more than social stimuli then I would have thought they were at least equally well equipped to deal with the socially isolating position of working at home — and possibly better equipped to deal with everyday geometrical shapes such as vegetables , kitchen sinks and washing machines . |
11 | Well it might be , but I mean if we carry on on our present system then I would have thought there was too much travel for one person to be covering the whole of the area on the way we 're presently using Sarah , cos she does |
12 | ‘ Then I would have to think again , ’ he confessed . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ That was because I assumed that the business would go to Francis and then I would have had no say in it . ’ |
16 | Then someone would have to wade into the mouth of the tunnel with a hooked stick to pull out the blockage so that the blood could run away freely . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The only way of addressing that differently , if indeed the guideline is strictly applied , and you 're required to identify no more than a net increase of six hundred and forty thousand in ninety five , six , the second year of this programme , then you would have to put in additional line of further savings as yet to be identified . |
19 | And then you would have met Leila . |
20 | You could do okay you could do that and then you would have used up all the oxygen and you 'd just have nitrogen left , but burning something in a liquid in liquid air is gon na be a bit awkward , it could n't be done . |
21 | In those days , the manure was distributed on the fields in heaps from a horse and cart and then you would have to follow behind with a handfork to rake it and spread it evenly . |
22 | Well , this is a slightly more complicated application , where you 're not just selling for example straight from stock , but you take orders from customers , and then you would have to manufacture , perhaps to buy in , to assemble , some sort of goods for sending out . |
23 | then you would have to accept it , cos it 's really the person who 's in play who 's the referee . |
24 | I might still have held off , And then you would have tarried . |
25 | For someone to come and clean , and then you would have to pay V A T on it . |
26 | The original objective was to liberate South Korea , it then began to unite Korea but if you raise the objective to an assault on China proper then , then you would have to quote General Ridgeway , who was a commander on the spot , er you 'd be fighting the wrong war , the wrong time and in the wrong place . |
27 | The original objective was to liberate South Korea , it then began to unite Korea but if you raise the objective to an assault on China proper then , then you would have to quote General Ridgeway , who was a commander on the spot , er you 'd be fighting the wrong war , the wrong time and in the wrong place . |
28 | If you eventually failed to agree at that level , then you would have to register failure to agree as you did in all other cases you know , leading up to that stage . |
29 | If this had given eighteen times it then you would have started off with one eighteenth . |
30 | For two pins there and then she would have summoned the two black-jacketed men who stood sentry on the door every evening , ready to eject any troublemakers . |