Example sentences of "would [verb] killed " in BNC.
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1 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
2 | ‘ She killed Rauff and she 'd have killed you if your luck had n't been running . |
3 | ‘ If I 'd know what you were , I 'd have killed myself in the Lubianka . ’ |
4 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
5 | One old lady from Wiltshire told me if the Germans had come they 'd have killed off old people like her . |
6 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
7 | Chris said she laughed and he had to rush out of the house or he 'd have killed her … . |
8 | He 'd have killed her if he 'd known . ’ |
9 | She 'd have killed Isabel if she could ! ’ |
10 | She 'd 'ave killed me if I 'd gone home without 'em . |
11 | Fenna would have killed her . |
12 | If that agreement is already deeply ailing , the Syrian invasion would have killed it off . |
13 | When I was unable to finish the heaped plateful , the waitress expressed concern that I had not enjoyed one of their local specialties ; two , I felt , would have killed me . |
14 | ‘ They would have killed you . |
15 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
16 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
17 | ‘ That sort of injury would have killed most women , ’ said Barry . |
18 | ‘ If , in the opinion of the judges , you theoretically land a blow which would have killed somebody outright , you win by something called ippon , or one point , ’ John explains . |
19 | ‘ No doubt that it would have killed Nick Stone , though ? ’ |
20 | She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht . |
21 | I ca n't think of anything else that would have killed the Oscar , unless he suffered damage during the transfer and dies of internal injuries — it can happen . |
22 | The pain would have killed a lesser being but Aenarion had passed through the fire of Asuryan and agony could not slow him . |
23 | ‘ I would have killed them , hot-shot . |
24 | Or else they would have killed us all , shot us in our beds . |
25 | If radio had depended on advertising revenue to operate on its 1940s scale , TV would have killed it . |
26 | When she then kills the prey , it is impossible to prove that she does so to demonstrate the act of killing , because she would have killed it in any case , in order to eat it . |
27 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
28 | Otherwise there 's no knowing just how many more he would have killed . |
29 | Two more minutes of this world would have killed it . |
30 | I had to do it in self-defence , or else he would have killed me . |