Example sentences of "be [adv] he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 2 | Alain had not allowed her to be where he would have to talk to her . |
| 3 | If things had been otherwise , perhaps that 's how he would have liked to hear of his son 's death . |
| 4 | Without exaggeration , left to himself , that 's where he would have ended . |
| 5 | It was how he would have expected Frankie to react . |
| 6 | It was where he would have gone in her shoes . |