Example sentences of "what he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 2 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 3 | She was good as gold ; I do n't know what he would 've done without her ! ’ |
| 4 | He tried to visualize what he would have done with them . |
| 5 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 6 | I mean I l the , the pundit system in this country is absolutely delightful , I mean you do n't need do you , when I mean the economy 's in , in , in reverse and things are going horribly wrong and they wheel on Mr Lawson to explain what he would have done , |
| 7 | He had half-expected Caterina to fail to turn up , and he was n't sure what he would have done with the girl if she had come . |
| 8 | Sir Bryan had done well to play to his handicap , but he could not resist telling everyone what he would have done if he 'd had his James Braid putter . |
| 9 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 10 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 11 | But to take such comments as proof that de Gaulle already knew what he would have to do in 1962 is a leap made only by Gaullists predisposed to elevate the General 's prescience to superhuman levels or by fanatical anti-Gaullists predisposed to exaggerate the depths of his duplicity . |
| 12 | There is no knowing what he would have made of Cardenal 's reading of Matthew , somewhat further on . |
| 13 | Had Charles looked the other way — south , over the town bridge — we have a very good idea of exactly what he would have seen , thanks to a contemporary engraving by Abraham Crocker . |
| 14 | You could be forgiven for remembering John Gould as a brilliant painter of birds — that 's exactly what he would have wanted . |
| 15 | That was the greatest gift , that was what he would have wanted most . |
| 16 | You understood him so well ; you know what he would have wanted . ’ |
| 17 | He says that before he died Mr Summerfield had said he 'd like his money to be used for a charitable trust — the gallery is just what he would have wanted . |
| 18 | But Garry Manning 's widow , Elaine said that 's what he would have wanted . |
| 19 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |
| 20 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 21 | On this particular day she wished devoutly that her late husband were with her and wondered what he would have to say about their daughter who had , so unaccountably , married another rank . |
| 22 | No one can know what he would have written because he was a direct witness and he had an exceptional personality — a deep artistic sensibility and great erudition . |
| 23 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what he would have called her . ’ |
| 25 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 26 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 27 | So insurance on the new Ford Fiesta car he had bought to drive his disabled wife about was going to cost him £750 double what he would have had to pay before the accident . |
| 28 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 29 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 30 | He comforted himself that his wife , being foreign , had just repeated the phrase parrot-fashion and did n't mean by it what he would have meant . |