Example sentences of "then [pron] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then no-one would have been satisfied , let alone the person who is the victim in all this . |
| 2 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the distance between bait and bullet was , say , 12 inches , then I would have 12 inches of line that would be out of my control . |
| 5 | If he had n't , then I would have to retire ! |
| 6 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I would have to think again , ’ he confessed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean , then I would have achieved something definite . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Accordingly I formally move it , but if the a that acceptance is not forthcoming , then I would have to deliver my speech . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 15 | And then I would have made my own judgement about her death . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ That was because I assumed that the business would go to Francis and then I would have had no say in it . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 21 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 24 | If she was n't home by then I 'd have to go and fetch her , knowing she 'd be slumped in a drunken stupor on the pavement , open-legged and snotty-nosed , against the wall of the High Fields pub . |
| 25 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 26 | If he 'd yelled at me then I 'd have been delirious , then I could have lived with him … |
| 27 | Then I 'd have a good blast when I got home , like . |
| 28 | Then I 'd have had to chase after you wherever you went . |
| 29 | The council said it would cost £10 to send somebody to look at the wall and then I 'd have to pay to have it repaired . |
| 30 | I know the spells laid on you at your birth , for I heard her sing them — and I smiled , may I be forgiven , for I thought then I 'd have the strength to break them ! |