Example sentences of "he would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 2 | That was the greatest gift , that was what he would have wanted most . |
| 3 | His father could n't be home yet because he would have turned half the lights off again . |
| 4 | Then Pumfrey did try to comfort him , as he would have done one of his own . |
| 5 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 6 | One wonders how he would have versified this set up . |
| 7 | If there had been room in the hallway , he would have swung Wee Charlie round in a circle . |
| 8 | She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties ' version of casual wear ; but , of course , when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt , detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand . |
| 9 | The Emperor had no particular difficulty putting a stop to this , though the Company was able to re-establish its position by blockading shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Emperor forgave the Company in much the same way as he would have forgiven any of his nobles who tried to rebel but who was so powerful that it was neither convenient nor practicable to destroy him . |
| 10 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 11 | If I had told him I wished he was dead he would have seen this as a palimpsest of desire , but I only wished that he was n't there . |
| 12 | Besides , he would have seen last night as a meeting between two sides to an argument . |
| 13 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 14 | If he had not felt really bad he would never have drunk it all , he would have saved some for me . ’ |
| 15 | The vet said he would have undergone prolonged suffering and an extreme amount of pain , because the first pellet would n't have killed him . |
| 16 | He would have felt nervous if it had n't been raining . |
| 17 | ‘ He would have felt three times as virtuous , ’ I said , and the barman looked at me blankly . |
| 18 | He is — was — an extremely competent forensic biologist , but I doubt whether he would have gone any higher . |
| 19 | He would have remained unpaid , and the loser in the matter . |
| 20 | A former member of his Household , reviewing the collapse of the Wales 's marriage , sincerely believes that he would have remained single if he had been given the choice . |
| 21 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 22 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 23 | Whether he would have kept any such agreement is another question , but his capacity for resistance would have been much reduced . |
| 24 | If any Matson citizen had taken an Italian holiday that year , he would have kept very quin about it . |
| 25 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
| 26 | Or he would have said that to her mother . |
| 27 | But he 's not saying that right , you 'd 've thought he , he 'd actually come up and say er er he would have said that for , you know , for his sake and also for the good of the Party . |
| 28 | He would have said much more , but Brown Owl , who had crawled under the fence , hurried to them and put her arms round poor , scared Mandy . |
| 29 | He would have said those nomads were just like beetles . ’ |
| 30 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |