Example sentences of "[vb past] he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since whatever happened he would have to take the London train , could he really expose her — a woman who had one child and so could surely have another — to the risk of her own fertility ? |
| 2 | Had he been able to argue with Northumberland before the present arrived he would have refused it , for four reasons . |
| 3 | He was not so simple as to believe that the danger would be over when Aldhelm went home frustrated , but what followed he would have to encounter and parry when it came . |
| 4 | Tony Yates , manager of Club Lucys , said he first heard he would have to close early when officers called at the club at 11.20pm on Saturday . |
| 5 | ‘ I only did what anyone else who loved him would have done . |
| 6 | Ludens now craved for these sessions , and had even instantly , when Irina spoke of the cottage in Wiltshire , decided he would have to move there , reorganise his life , and set up house next door . |
| 7 | McLeish decided he would have to abandon any prejudice taken from Francesca about this trade ; Peter Yeo knew his business and was obviously effective . |
| 8 | After a moments thought , he decided he would have to try and race the tide . |
| 9 | McLeish contemplated this and decided he would have to find out more about Yeo Davis 's financial affairs . |
| 10 | Oh yes , if Greg had been around when the storm broke he 'd have faced ruin — and probably gone to gaol into the bargain . |
| 11 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 12 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 13 | Once he had thought of it he knew he would have to do it . |
| 14 | In a written statement , Khumalo said that he had organized the transfer of the covert funds , claiming that he had deliberately kept the source of the funding from Buthelezi because " I knew he would have rejected the proposal out of hand " . |
| 15 | He knew he would have to go in search of extra newspaper before the pains came again , but first he must rest and regain his strength after his exertions in the bathroom . |
| 16 | He knew he would have to go through with the nightly ritual . |
| 17 | But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk . |
| 18 | But there again , as she knew he would have argued , politics were a serious matter . |
| 19 | But we knew he would have wanted the wedding to go ahead . |
| 20 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 21 | He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now . |
| 22 | He knew he would have to live afterwards with the vanquished . |
| 23 | He knew he would have to tread very warily from now on . |
| 24 | He knew he would have to work fast . |
| 25 | They had fought their way backwards through pantries and brushing rooms and knife rooms , past the European servants ' staircase , past the European butler 's room , the nurseries , the nursery dining-room , and the ayah 's rooms , until in the dining-room he knew he would have to make a stand . |
| 26 | He had thought beforehand that he would have to send her back and deal with Sung some other way , but now he had seen her he felt the need in him , like a strong , dark tar in his blood , and knew he would have to purge himself of that . |
| 27 | So he well I knew he 'd have to reach out |
| 28 | He knew he 'd have to give himself up . |
| 29 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |
| 30 | I honestly thought he would have forgotten the Marquis of Granby incident . |