Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’ |
| 2 | Or I would have to do miserable work like illustrating , or even commercial stuff , to keep the home going . |
| 3 | Or I would have stamped , except that my feet hurt . |
| 4 | You have very little room for manoeuvre within this service , and the Registrar General has reserve powers to impose services on you , and I would have to advice you it would be virtually , or I would have to say it would be impossible to achieve that ongoing reduction in future years . |
| 5 | Instead of telling the silly tart to go and put some knickers on , as you or I would have done , these guys go all sweaty and hot under the collar , and stare at her , gobsmacked and embarrassed . |
| 6 | I slowed some more and it was just as well or I would have missed him . |
| 7 | I had to excuse myself and go out of the room , or I would have collapsed laughing at the doctor 's reaction . |
| 8 | He 'd pulled his finger back or I would have bitten it . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank goodness Miss Philimore 's not here , or I 'd have to explain this sudden run on roses . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't realize how much , or I 'd have written to you . |
| 11 | Leonard is n't orthodox , thank goodness , or I 'd have to shave off all my hair . |
| 12 | Or I 'd have called the police I think . |
| 13 | I thought , I must get it cut — and then I remembered that I had no money to waste on that sort of thing any more ; it would just have to grow , or I 'd have to cut it myself . |
| 14 | " Thank God you did , or I 'd have cracked up and had even less money saved than I have now . " |
| 15 | Obviously I 'd left the rabbits alone for too long , or I 'd have known about the existence of such a brute . |
| 16 | Or somebody would have said well we wanted brown bread , not white bread . |
| 17 | Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again . |
| 18 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 19 | I know you say she 's very nice but she ca n't be all that special or you 'd have fallen for her donkeys ' years ago . |
| 20 | It ca n't be all that strong or you 'd have arrested him by now . ’ |
| 21 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |
| 22 | Its President would be directly elected : for election he or she would have to receive at least 50 per cent of total votes cast nationally , andmoreover receive at least this percentage in a majority of states , and might not serve more than two consecutive five-year terms . |
| 23 | Yet it 's bad , must be , or she would have phoned herself . |
| 24 | ‘ She was so bad it was lucky she died , or she would have ended up in prison , or hung . ’ |
| 25 | This meant that whichever of the leading candidates was eventually declared president , he or she would have to face a legislature dominated by a rival party . |
| 26 | Clearly the brute of a man had forgotten all about the interview — so too had Milada Pankracova , or she would have reminded him . |
| 27 | Either he would find out she was seeing Plummer or she would have to tell him . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether there was anyone there from BBC Television , but if there was , he or she would have had no doubt who should be the person to present a regular natural history programme if and when they got round to it . |
| 29 | It might be argued that this scheme puts the claimant who at present has a choice whether or not to use Ord. 53 , at a disadvantage because under the new scheme he or she would have to seek leave and would possibly be subject to very restrictive time-limits . |
| 30 | It has been equally possible to operate the procedures in such a way as to leave all the issues open and so reveal very little to the other party about the case he or she would have to meet . |