Example sentences of "[noun] they would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 2 | If you had asked cosmetic companies ten years ago to stop experimenting on animals they would have replied , ‘ No alternative . ’ |
| 3 | Moreover , if they were to break through within the established system then they just might be a little less enthusiastic about introducing proportional representation as " a first priority " since it could let one of the parties they would have displaced back into the game . |
| 4 | ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’ |
| 5 | Nutty knew that without Biddy they would have got nowhere at all with their idiosyncratic beasts . |
| 6 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 7 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 8 | Added to the sweeteners they 'd have to pay back , that would mean a deficit of nearly £130m . |
| 9 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |
| 10 | Ruth felt sure that but for the presence of their parents they would have stuck out their tongues . |
| 11 | It may be that from a stockbroker they would have done , although there is room for argument . |
| 12 | They wanted to know how much help they would have to give the Sutton pupils . |
| 13 | Hitler 's instruction to curb anti-Polish activity meant that what they could not accomplish by open violence or legalistic chicanery they would have to accomplish by stealth and skulduggery . |
| 14 | If only they had shown my foresight they would have had nothing to worry about . |
| 15 | It was a pity they would have to cross the car off . |
| 16 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 17 | Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern . |
| 18 | ‘ Bloody cheek they 'd have to mind . |
| 19 | And if you had asked my mum and dad whether I had it in me to be an actress or singer they would have laughed you out of town , ’ said Kylie . |
| 20 | If composers such as Mahler , Scriabin , Mussorgsky , Prokofiev and Richard Strauss had collaborated as equals with musicians from the European colonies of Brazil , Cuba , Haiti , Nigeria , Ghana , Cameroon and Congo , what a sound they would have made . |
| 21 | Had they obeyed the accepted rules of warfare they would have stayed somewhere ‘ further down ’ . |
| 22 | Delighted , Benn told a refusenik rally that if the striking miners had had a paper like the Wapping Post they would have won . |
| 23 | ‘ In the old days they 'd have thumped enough into him to get him through his exam . |
| 24 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 25 | They had listed all of the places they would have to pass on their way to the Fire Court ; they had shown the tiny villages and the Wolfwood and the forks in the road and the long flat road down to Reflection 's country and the glittering decadent Fire Court . |
| 26 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
| 27 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 28 | For perhaps three seconds guilt was all they did feel , the simple , shocked guilt they would have felt before any adult . |
| 29 | Yeah , was the rest they 'd have to pay or |
| 30 | Firstly , we only know of the existence of these structures because of the waterlogged nature of the peat in which they are found , since without such conditions they would have rotted away and disappeared . |