Example sentences of "[pers pn] he would have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When your dad eventually reached you he would have insisted that I marry you . ’
2 ‘ If he had wanted to find you he would have come himself , ’ she said with a wry look .
3 Ah no , I think if he wanted you he would have come to you , do n't you ?
4 You 've had a bit of luck there , you might turn the other way next year , and you might find that you 've got an increased number of police retiring , and if you have , you 're going to find extreme pressure on the police budget , and you will see that there is the reductions that the Chief Constable told you he would have to make if that happened .
5 But Mortimer said that if it had been him he would have hit the roof . ’
6 Had she encouraged him he would have given more .
7 And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them .
8 She had reminded him he would have to speak to a certain young man in the Blue Boar this evening .
9 Rain reminded him he would have put hundreds of people out of work .
10 Mr Bryant sacked the clerk but Jonathan kept Matthew on and told him he would have to pay all the money back out of his wages , so much a month . ’
11 They asked Meehan , who was in a neighbour 's room , about a gas meter and a broken window and Mohammed Mansha told him he would have to pay for the damage .
12 But when he asked for his toast , a sister told him he would have to eat rolls and jam or go without .
13 As we talked , I felt that if I had pressed him he would have loaned it to me anyway , but the Land Rover was necessary for the research programme and it would have been irresponsible to put John 's work at risk .
14 but they , but they told him he 'd have to pull it down , so
15 If he had n't adored her he would have treated her as a credulous imbecile .
16 If he really loves her he would have kept away from her .
17 It was all she wanted to know really , the truth — that if Fernando had truly loved her he would have moved heaven and earth to get her back .
18 Had he simply desired her he would have taken both her and the consequences then and there , booted that evil-looking brute of a dog aside , and made love to her , gloried in her , possessed her once and for all , on the hearth-rug .
19 If Ace had any real feelings for her he would have taken her prohibition as a challenge , and made love to her until she welcomed him joyfully into her bed .
20 If he really loved me he would have sent me away .
21 If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind .
22 If he went to them he would have to admit that he left her there .
23 In order to see them he would have had to climb a couple of hundred feet more .
24 I wonder what these people 's reactions would be if the boss of their works told them he would have to cut safety standards because of the cost ?
25 The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm .
26 It was as if that was the only emotion Jack allowed himself , the only time he let down his guard , and she sensed that it was almost involuntary and if he could have prevented it he would have done .
27 That 's normal and that 's what Wendy has to learn to do or else it 's you know it 's it 's difficult for somebody else to if Ian did it he would have to get all the figures first .
28 The two men were at the top of the stairs and almost within grabbing distance , but if either had tried it he would have left his fingers in the frame as the bang echoed through the house and Carson thumbed the deadlock button , just in case they had any ideas about picking their way in .
29 For one thing he needed hard evidence , and to get it he would have to show his hand .
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