Example sentences of "and they would have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm sure the system would have been implemented in the quarry , and they would 've suffered even worse than us .
2 There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened .
3 Very likely there would have been a further coolness or misunderstanding and they would have parted .
4 And they would have stayed so , if he had died in his bed .
5 On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor .
6 These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling .
7 Maybe just a few more seconds and they would have fired him and he would n't be in this position now .
8 The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat .
9 As far as these cats were concerned , I have little doubt that nothing but positive r reinforcement would have been given because if they had been punished they simply would n't have done it , and they would have run away and it 's very much more difficult as a as a performer to have an animal w is n't going to want to do the act .
10 Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora .
11 Once rehearsals started it would become obvious that Therese could n't support a romantic juvenile lead like Sonja , and they would have to do something .
12 He replied : ‘ We had our orders and they would have shot me if I had resisted . ’
13 By then the office would be busy and they would have to contrive a meeting where they would be unobserved .
14 All Bailey had to do was tell the Mossad why you were here and they would have got Al-Makesh to pass the information on to Bernard .
15 If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract .
16 But by the time the police had secured the exemption and got back to the brothel , the keeper would have changed his nationality and they would have to start all over again .
17 Another mile or so , another thirty seconds at the most and they would have dropped harmlessly in the Channel . ’
18 With more sales flowing to parent companies overseas , British music subsidiaries would be starved of cash to invest in new talent ; and they would have to cut their lists , which are bigger than those in America .
19 Crews had to be debriefed and they would have to eat , too .
20 Seven curtain calls , and they would have taken more if Rose , concerned at the over-time the stagehands were in danger of earning , had n't signalled Freddie Reynalde to play the audience out .
21 Yet there was no widespread attack on aristocratic land-owners by those who suffered directly from their incurable indifference to country life — in spite of royal example they did not hunt , there was little shooting until the late nineteenth century , and they would have found English country-house life inconceivable .
22 The slaves could come in , if need be , as support from the rear , resupplying the front line ; but Kit was loath to call on them at all , and they would have to fight unarmed .
23 He set up home with his wife Kerry at RAF Lyneham and they would have celebrated their second wedding anniversary later this month .
24 ‘ After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says .
25 Animals would have known , would have caught his scent , or have seen him suddenly among them , and they 'd have turned and fled as a herd will turn from a predator .
26 In the morning when they wanted the money I 'd say ‘ I 've just got to phone home , ’ and get Mum to promise to pay , and they 'd have to wait till she turned up .
27 It felt like midnight , and they 'd have to sit up till midnight .
28 God knows what lie she 'd have made up to the staff , and they 'd have believed her .
29 Of course I was far too small , and they 'd have swum away from me in fright anyway , but that did n't stop me trying on occasion .
30 All I know is that she never said so , and they 'd have had precious little opportunity , one or other of them being on call for two out of any three nights . ’
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