Example sentences of "[indef pn] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise someone would have seen him again . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd think someone would have made enquiries about me by now . ’ |
| 3 | Though someone would have to do the job . |
| 4 | He 'd know that someone would have to go down there and recover the body and it could easily have been spotted . |
| 5 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 6 | Puritan and Calvinistic tradition would not approve of actually enjoying such a ceremony and no doubt someone would have pointed out that Ruth first caught Boaz 's eye by uncovering his feet as he slept and lying alongside them . |
| 7 | ‘ But you would have thought that someone would have looked up over all those days . |
| 8 | I thought someone would have put a bullet in his back by now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I thought someone would have put a bullet in his back by now … ’ |
| 10 | It 's just — well , it 's just that if whatever killed Paula was a software virus rather than an accident , then someone would have had to infect the suitbrain . |
| 11 | You would have thought someone would have found him . |
| 12 | Someone would have to tell Christopher Court , MP , that the woman he was expecting to marry was dead . |
| 13 | Surely , someone would have spotted him . ’ |
| 14 | Someone would have to help with the riding ! |
| 15 | Then someone would have to wade into the mouth of the tunnel with a hooked stick to pull out the blockage so that the blood could run away freely . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a lovely old fellow but nobody would have guessed he was a multi-millionaire . ’ |
| 17 | Or they could 've got a plane to Paris , nobody would have stopped them . |
| 18 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 19 | Nobody would have cared ; been relieved , more like , to have him out of the way . |
| 20 | You know nobody would have prevented you from going . |
| 21 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 22 | ‘ I missed a simple note and if it had been anyone else , nobody would have batted an eyelid , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Nobody would have beaten me . |
| 24 | Naturally nobody would have made this distinction at the time and certainly Julian and all her friends thought that she was at death 's door . |
| 25 | But there would 've been nobody would have stolen bodies here though . |
| 26 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 27 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 28 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 29 | ‘ You could have had an abortion and nobody would have known . |
| 30 | She might have stayed out , and nobody would have known . |