Example sentences of "[pron] would certainly have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was more than mildly impressed with Miss Semmens and decided I would certainly have to see her again — and soon . |
| 2 | ‘ Marco Polo insisted that the mountain was made in the shape of a cube , which would certainly have explained the matter . |
| 3 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you kindly go away , ’ said Prince Edward in a voice which would certainly have carried across Rutland . |
| 5 | Twisting the wire tie is hard too , but the binning itself is something which would certainly have earned me a Rainbow Award at play-school . |
| 6 | An interesting discovery which would certainly have brought the Hunters running was unearthed at Danbury , Essex , in October 1779 . |
| 7 | You 'd certainly have to rewrite the communion service , for young people to understand it . |
| 8 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had n't come , she would certainly have accepted my proposal by now . |
| 10 | Sloane introduced her to Isaac Rand , the Demonstrator of Plants at the Physic Garden , who advised her to live near it where she would find the plants needed and where she would certainly have met Miller and Ehret . |
| 11 | After all , she would certainly have agreed that an apology was in order . |
| 12 | He thought she would certainly have had other lovers , for he knew a little of the way of the Court , and he pushed the thought away . |
| 13 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 14 | Particular lecturers remembered with appreciation were Donald Mackinnon , A.J.P. Taylor , C.S. Lewis , J.R.R. Tolkien , Professor Nicol Smith and Lord David Cecil ; also Mathematicians unnamed , but who would certainly have included Dr Busbridge of St. Hugh 's who took under her tutorial wing all women Maths undergraduates at that time . |
| 15 | If Tommaso had n't troubled to have me paged at the opera , you would certainly have performed coitus with this young woman and d'ye know what would have happened then ? ’ |
| 16 | And if we had , we would certainly have cleared the building and got out of here until it dissipated . ’ |
| 17 | If this percentage potential could be considered to hold true outside the USA , we would certainly have to ask of the great majority of congregations , ‘ What has happened to your ten per cent ? ’ |
| 18 | They would certainly have noticed it , but there are other qualities useful to a sovereign . |
| 19 | Experienced police officers told us that if a jury had seen the video they would certainly have convicted Lucy . |
| 20 | It had only six bedrooms , but there was enough room in the kitchens and pantries to billet an army , though they would certainly have mutinied at the conditions there . |
| 21 | But if you 'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation . |
| 22 | They would certainly have thought that such events were unlikely to happen for millennia to come — if at all . |
| 23 | They would certainly have had no chance of financing their programme without large increases both in taxation and in the borrowing requirement . |
| 24 | In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen . |
| 25 | Observing Raskolnikov wince at the idea of eternity as a bathhouse , he murmurs ‘ with a vague smile ’ that he would certainly have made it like that himself . |
| 26 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 27 | The colour drained from his face and he would certainly have fallen , had not two crimson rope-lights shot out and pinioned his arms to the wall , so that he was forced to stand , vertically , half hanging by his hands , half supported by his mutilated legs . |
| 28 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 29 | But if the Messiah was not divine , he would certainly have had God 's particular and unique blessing . |
| 30 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |