Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ did , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority ’ Means that this offence is not committed if the accused believed that he had lawful authority to do it or that he would have had the owner 's consent if the owner knew of his doing it and the circumstances of it . |
| 2 | He would wait and see if Mr McWhirter arrived , or if he would have to fill in . |
| 3 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 4 | He knew perfectly well that they were not very good prizes and that he would have done better to lay out his money at Woolworth 's , but he did not wish to hear Emmie telling him so . |
| 5 | Only then would he know for certain that it had really happened , and that he would have to take some action . |
| 6 | And if he would have preferred it not to be Frizingley , to be , in fact , anywhere else but there , he managed to quell his initial misgivings by the grim reminder that he would be unlikely to know anyone in St Jude 's now . |
| 7 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 8 | And since he would have had several hinds , at the peak of his reproductive career , his reproductive success would have been considerably greater . |
| 9 | He supposed Mr Rose was interested in finding out if he , Marcus , " was " homosexual , and whilst he would have liked to know that himself , and remembered the one explicitly sexual moment of his relations with Lucas with tremors of disgust and anxiety , he had no wish to go into that with Mr Rose . |
| 10 | He was asked if he had known about the attrocities committed under Stalin in the 1930s , and whether he would have liked to be returned to the Soviet Union labelled traitor at the end of the war . |
| 11 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 12 | The Collector had gone up to join Ford on the roof because he wanted to be in a position from which he could give the order to retreat at the right moment ; in his own mind there was no doubt but that he would have to give it sooner or later . |
| 13 | She knew she had her partner on the verge of an orgasm , but that he would have to work harder at controlling himself . |
| 14 | He added that Mr Kinnock would have been the better orator , but that he would have won on detail and facts . |
| 15 | But if he 'd have had some a little bit of direction |
| 16 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |