Example sentences of "he would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I only did what anyone else who loved him would have done . |
| 3 | On the phone the other day you said that if only you and Dennis had had children then something of him would have survived . |
| 4 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 5 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 6 | But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money . |
| 7 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 8 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 9 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 10 | He also referred to US intelligence operations which , he said , he would have presented as evidence in his defence but which had been suppressed . |
| 11 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 12 | If the driver had seen that I was hurt , he would have stopped , and I was not up to explaining why I could not accept a lift . |
| 13 | If it had n't been for Willie 's attentive expression he would have stopped . |
| 14 | They should have held back and he would have stopped . |
| 15 | Had it been any night other than Wednesday , he would have staggered out . |
| 16 | Paisley asserted that , had he wanted to destroy the Unionist Party , he would have fielded candidates in all the constituencies . |
| 17 | If an assailant had struck from behind , he would have toppled forward over the rail . |
| 18 | You could be forgiven for remembering John Gould as a brilliant painter of birds — that 's exactly what he would have wanted . |
| 19 | If Michael Heseltine had won the leadership in November 1990 , he would have wanted to call an immediate general election . |
| 20 | So I think it ended the way he would have wanted it to end . |
| 21 | That was the greatest gift , that was what he would have wanted most . |
| 22 | You understood him so well ; you know what he would have wanted . ’ |
| 23 | But we knew he would have wanted the wedding to go ahead . |
| 24 | If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was . |
| 25 | It is a cliché to say he died where he would have wanted to be , but true nonetheless . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not sure he would have wanted me to have anything else . |
| 27 | He says that before he died Mr Summerfield had said he 'd like his money to be used for a charitable trust — the gallery is just what he would have wanted . |
| 28 | But Garry Manning 's widow , Elaine said that 's what he would have wanted . |
| 29 | She said that this was the way he would have wanted to die . |
| 30 | He loved the Spitfire and if he had to die , that was the way he would have wanted it . |