Example sentences of "[noun] he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't , and the horse he would have put money on had won by a length , and he was twelve-and-six out of pocket . |
| 2 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 3 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 4 | Mr Fairley said : ‘ If he was in his bedroom he would have had to run past a gauntlet of flame . |
| 5 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 6 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 7 | If the crime had been other than murder he would have left it to his Scientific Officer assistant , not yet returned from a belated lunch . |
| 8 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 9 | He gave a little sigh of resignation as he thought of it : to continue the search he would have to go to Italy . |
| 10 | ‘ We never use these drawers , if he 'd put the light on instead of feeling around in the dark he 'd have found that out immediately . ’ |
| 11 | Corbett he would have to stop . |
| 12 | ‘ For this wedding he would have to save for many years . |
| 13 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 14 | Definitely not the surprise and pleasure he would have shown at seeing Cameron again after so long . |
| 15 | You 've wangled him into dinner tonight , but of his own accord he would have gone straight off … to … to Marise , probably . ’ |
| 16 | The client was dissatisfied with the amount of maintenance he would have to pay . |
| 17 | Wondered if he had any idea what force he would have needed to pull the arrow out , like a wooden skewer out of meat . |
| 18 | In less than five months he would have finished his studies here . |
| 19 | At Beaulieu Abbey near Loches he would have seen the piece of stone from the Holy Sepulchre which his notoriously savage ancestor Count Fulk the Black was believed to have bitten off while kneeling down to pray there on one of his three pilgrimages to Jerusalem . |
| 20 | Ever since coming upon Rousseau 's writings so long ago , I have tried to live with my dear wife above the glaciers in the condition he would have approved , that of the Noble Savage — in defiance of those citified creatures who multiply in the valleys far below . |
| 21 | When he 'd switched the plates he 'd have to give some thought to ways of raising a little cash to live on . |
| 22 | It is likely that had Smart completed his revisions and published the work he would have included an explanatory preface , as he does in A Song to David and the psalms translation . |
| 23 | The most important of these , the sheer efficiency of collection , was also the reason why Walpole found such political and popular resistance in trying to move towards an excise-based system , although over the century most of the commodities he would have included in his general excise did find their way into its embrace . |
| 24 | Walking on it safely was a skill he would have to relearn . |
| 25 | However , one of our many mountain goats points out that had Sir Ranulph taken full advantage of mod.tech. he would have reduced his load drastically . |
| 26 | Reading between the lines he would have seen her secret fear for the future . |
| 27 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 28 | The plaintiff did not give evidence , so there is no evidence as to the attitude he would have adopted had he known the facts . |
| 29 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |
| 30 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |