Example sentences of "[adv] he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One pal said : ‘ He loved her so much he would have done anything to protect her and he paid for that love with his life . ’ |
| 2 | Now , when there was a strict limit to how long he would have to talk to her , it was convenient — perhaps even imperative — to do so unimpeded by a third party . |
| 3 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 4 | But he did not know how long he would have to wait to do so . |
| 5 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 6 | He reasoned that perhaps he would have to put fresh sensation between these echoes and their origins ; fuck them out ; sweat himself clean . |
| 7 | Proud ; embarrassed , Like me , He smiled , perhaps he would have to go and get a ladder ; rescue her , The idea amused him . |
| 8 | Perhaps he would have gone to his Member of Parliament . |
| 9 | Perhaps he would have fared better if he pleaded one of the defences in section 24 ( see paragraphs 16–22 to 16–25 below ) . |
| 10 | Former Tory party chairman Cecil Parkinson was on the trail of the floating voter but it was proving more difficult than perhaps he would have expected . |
| 11 | There are passages where Beethoven makes problems that perhaps he would have avoided if he had been able to hear . |
| 12 | If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan , perhaps he would have cried even more loudly . |
| 13 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 14 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 15 | It would solve his problem nicely , or so he would have thought . ’ |
| 16 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 17 | So he would have known . |
| 18 | So he would have had to do quite a lot of work . |
| 19 | So he would have to confront the next patient . |
| 20 | So he 'd have to dig the grave by himself . |
| 21 | And if the old boy in the field had got a grudge against the bloke taking it off he used to shove it anywhere so he 'd have to pull it off , instead of following the the seam round , you see ? |
| 22 | If he had run away he would have taken Murgatroyd — he would n't have gone anywhere without Murgatroyd . |
| 23 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |
| 24 | Soon he 'd have turned us off . |
| 25 | Had his depression lasted much longer he would have become agoraphobic . |
| 26 | Longing to see something green and to inhale fresh air , Vincent asked the doctor how much longer he would have to wait to be discharged . |
| 27 | Somehow he 'd have to get up to the wood today to fetch down his Dad 's clippers and wire . |
| 28 | But outside he would have known where he was . |
| 29 | Five or ten mile , if had fucking he would have gone , he did n't Maggie with it . |
| 30 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |