Example sentences of "[noun pl] he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In less than five months he would have finished his studies here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he 'd switched the plates he 'd have to give some thought to ways of raising a little cash to live on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Reading between the lines he would have seen her secret fear for the future . |
| 9 | In any other circumstances he would have warmed to her ; he had found her especially disturbing . |
| 10 | Under different circumstances he would have preferred to cover things over , the illegitimacy for one . |
| 11 | I did n't have time to stop him , ’ he said , suggesting that under any other circumstances he would have downed the suspect with a flying tackle . |
| 12 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |
| 13 | In the old days he would have felt guilt . |
| 14 | To many in those days he would have reminded them of Jesus . |
| 15 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 16 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
| 17 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 18 | There were many things he would have liked to have done but he needed this man , who , with a combination of chance and logic , could reach the truths which might affect the realm . |
| 19 | The trial judge found that the delay denied the plaintiff a 25% chance of avoiding the hip deformity and awarded 25% of the damages he would have awarded had the injury been solely caused by the delayed diagnosis . |
| 20 | In fact , he totally underestimated the difficulties he would have to face : in the 18 months since the APB was set up , the economic climate and spectacular corporate failures such as BCCI and Maxwell have left the public baying for auditors ' blood , and , although there has been a honeymoon period — somewhat extended recently by publication of the McFarlane Report — the pressure under which the new body has had to work has been intense . |
| 21 | Arthritis sufferer Betty , 63 , said the special parking spaces were of no use , while Jim , 63 , said his hip replacement meant the extra 200 yards he would have to push his wife would be hard work . |
| 22 | If he bought compressed pellet hops he would have to use only half the amount compared to whole hops . |
| 23 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 24 | You may reflect on what influence this financial pressure , in addition to all the other pressures he 'd have felt , would have had on his will to ’ live . |
| 25 | Mr Clinton added that the number and range of the decisions he would have to take was ‘ mind-boggling ’ . |
| 26 | Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover . |
| 27 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 28 | The Attorney-General has no statutory right to preview programmes or to see transcripts or articles in draft , and if the rule against prior restraint were honoured in breach of confidence cases he would have to await publication before deciding whether the public interest required action . |
| 29 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |
| 30 | Two hours he 'd have to wait . |