Example sentences of "then [pers pn] would have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had n't , then I would have to retire ! |
| 2 | Accordingly I formally move it , but if the a that acceptance is not forthcoming , then I would have to deliver my speech . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I would have to think again , ’ he confessed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | then you would have to accept it , cos it 's really the person who 's in play who 's the referee . |
| 8 | For someone to come and clean , and then you would have to pay V A T on it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But if any part of any one of those female organs hidden away inside her dared to enjoy it then she would have to despise herself . |
| 13 | Poor Ned , cruel with his jealousy , who had already made it clear to her that as soon as Captain Goldsborough went away again — as he surely would — to see to his interests in Antigua and Martinique , then she would have to give Ned exactly what he wanted . |
| 14 | She would issue the new instructions regarding strangers and then she would have to see Mr Lee about a permanent bodyguard here in the house , someone who would blend in … a manservant . |
| 15 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 16 | If she ever believed that of him , she would weaken , give in to the powerful attraction , and then she would have to admit there were emotions behind that attraction , emotions that would lead her into heartbreak . |
| 17 | If this was any indication as to how she would be spending her time in London then she would have to find something to do , and quick . |
| 18 | Company secretary Philip Potts said : ‘ If we are going to bring the sale back to Newmarket , then we would have to act quickly because time is running out . |
| 19 | Then we would have to go on the run , move from place to place , rely on the people to feed and shelter us . |
| 20 | If we accept it , as many people seem to with enthusiasm , then we would have to include the rats , mice , dogs , cats , and numerous other creatures used in the laboratory , in our outcry over the revelations about the sale of microcephalic infants . |
| 21 | I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to . |
| 22 | If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon . |
| 23 | The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent . |
| 24 | If we use the criterion invoked for the characteristic activity sense of the progressive , namely that the admissibility of an adverb signals a different sense , then we would have to increase the subcategories of meaning associated with this particular aspectual form of the verb . |
| 25 | Suppose no real dates were available , as with our older eras , then we would have to recognise it by the phenomena of organic evolution . |
| 26 | But if someone were to claim that it would be a better world without birds and bears , trees and rivers , and the Dani people , then we would have to assume that they were either joking , lying , or crazy . |
| 27 | If we were to believe the local paper reports then we would have to accept that The Smiths were attacked by hordes of outraged loyalists , which was far from the truth . |
| 28 | If we consider why people become hypocrites — as far as I know , no one is ever born one — then we would have to suggest a variety of motives . |
| 29 | And then we would have to have another think |
| 30 | But then we would have to find separate words for every action or event denoted by different lexical verbs : a mammoth and unnecessary task . |