Example sentences of "and he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should have held back and he would have stopped . |
| 2 | And he would have to pose for hours , holding a sword and perched on a trestle or wooden horse while some artist-wallah depicted " The Relief of Krishnapur " ! |
| 3 | in blurred appeal and he would have to let |
| 4 | ‘ Ten minutes earlier and he would have made it over them rocks into the pool , ’ concluded Lofty . |
| 5 | ‘ Another 90 seconds and he would have made it . ’ |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Another 90 seconds and he would have made it . ’ |
| 7 | She would need some encouragement from her husband and he would have to display some discipline , ( a ) to provide the information for preparation of the budgets , and ( b ) to accept the result of the exercise and implement any necessary restrictions in buying , etc . |
| 8 | The door opened unexpectedly , and he would have fallen into the dark kitchen were it not for the fact that after four inches it jarred and stuck . |
| 9 | One would say : ‘ Comrade so and so , ’ and their poor victim would turn white and he would have to go with them and perhaps we never saw him again . |
| 10 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 11 | He wanted to write something which would be profoundly true and he would have liked to have corrected the image of Modigliani which developed very early on in a number of dubious publications . |
| 12 | He would have enjoyed seeing more of this blue and green misty world with the lingering scents of ancient magic everywhere and he would have liked to see some of its people and found out how they lived and what they did and if they were happy . |
| 13 | And he would have asked manager Mark McCormack why . |
| 14 | In other words ‘ if he thought he was nt part of the future plans Id have told him so and he would have asked for a transfer … has he ? ? |
| 15 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 16 | But Stuart is so effervescent , so bloody méthode champenoise nowadays that I could have gone down on my knees to his wife and he would have accepted my explanation that I was tacking up her hem . |
| 17 | And he would have run , he could ; even , shamelessly , in his shirt-tail as he was . |
| 18 | When the US President , Eisenhower , visited Madrid on 21 December 1959 , Franco persisted in interpreting it as a sign of recognition of his rightness , not as an indication that times were changing and he would have to move with them or be left behind . |
| 19 | He would have seen , as we see , people whose ‘ gods and lords ’ are materialism ; he would notice the efforts of men and women to solve problems in their own strength ; and he would have said : |
| 20 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 21 | The Darlington inquest heard Mr Still , of Newholme Estate , Station Town , Wingate , died from cardio-respiratory failure and he would have become unconscious soon after impact . |
| 22 | At this point Francis must have had about 20 seconds to live , a few more steps and he would have reached the other end which , for him , was the threshold of death . |
| 23 | And he would have to tell Ezzie all about it , every detail , how one recess long ago the boys had decided to put some girls in the school trash cans . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ They told me that the worst case scenario was that his brain would swell and he would have to have an operation . |
| 25 | ‘ No , ’ she denied drily , and he would have to make of that what he would , because she could n't explain why she had come , not the real reason , because it was private , and because the woman she had come to find , the woman her grandfather had asked her to look up , deliver the package to , might be very angry — and rightfully so — if she discussed her business with other people . |
| 26 | It was an expression that still gave him pleasure and he would have used it to describe his own limited grasp of the subject , but it would have been wasted on the sparrow-sized man across the big desk from him . |
| 27 | He could easily have got a foot stuck and he would have drowned . |
| 28 | Of course , the label or promotional literature as constituting a representation would have to induce the representee to enter the main contract of sale and he would have to know of it prior to the contract . |
| 29 | This , he agreed , would have been his first move had such a case landed on his desk , and he would have talked , too , to the local health visitor . |
| 30 | Just as well someone had rung Catherine half an hour ago , or they 'd both still have been asleep , and he would have had difficult questions to answer in the morning about why he had been , uncharacteristically , out of touch with everyone since leaving Yeo Davis at six . |