Example sentences of "then they would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 2 | I mean you mi then you might have said , well actually I want someone here a bit quicker and then they would have done something else . |
| 3 | Yes and then they 've were forked up in the carts , what the bogeys are nowadays , and then they would have made stacks and stack yet . |
| 4 | But then they would have heard her , surely ? |
| 5 | The dangers of dependence on rich men would be and were regularly pointed out : if the local parties were not themselves independent then they would have to turn to rich outsiders to fight their elections for them , as The Times pointed out in 1911 : |
| 6 | But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand . |
| 7 | If Labour had eliminated these plans from its programme and continued to emphasise John Smith 's prudence ( as opposed to his curious ideas about minimum wages and confiscatory ‘ social justice ’ ) , then they would have swung more London and Midlands marginals their way . |
| 8 | The person gathering the data would first have to register the churches ; then they would have to go back and record the sculptures kept in each ; it would take another visit to catalogue the paintings ; another for the liturgical vestments , and so on . |
| 9 | Then they would have to sell the farm . |
| 10 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 11 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 12 | If he brought her any more , then they would have to have a little talk . |
| 13 | And I think Don could read the music too but they 'd be more or less self taught otherwise but then they would have started playing by ear . |
| 14 | They had prepared themselves for an unpleasant scene in which the wretched boy , stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake , would have to surrender and beg for mercy and then they would have watched the triumphant Trunchbull forcing more and still more cake into the mouth of the gasping boy . |
| 15 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 16 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 17 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 18 | Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive . |
| 19 | and just keep them on meagre wages and then they 'd have to subsidize themselves or |
| 20 | ‘ Then they 'd have said so , surely ? ’ |
| 21 | So then they 'd have to call another van . |