Example sentences of "that would [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's plenty of folk that would 've taken me . |
| 2 | He smiled for a long moment into the raging eyes that would have struck him dead if they could . |
| 3 | IT IS said that the marketing and advertising course is now the hardest to enter in the University of Ulster , requiring ‘ A ’ -level grades that would have sent my generation scurrying off with aspirations of entering Oxford or Cambridge and a career in the fast track of the Civil Service . |
| 4 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 5 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 6 | On any day that would have pleased me . |
| 7 | In some obscure way Thomas recognized ( in 1913 ) that his decision to become a writer at the age of sixteen closed the door on a career that would have pleased his father . |
| 8 | When they reached the sixth form all the ones that would have called them names had left . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Anybody watching that would have said I was a rapist and you were being raped . ’ |
| 10 | CHINA 'S hardline vice-president Wang Zhen died yesterday , just days before a meeting of parliament that would have retired him from his post . |
| 11 | She was behaving with unaccustomed grandeur , slipping on a manner of authority and calm that would have made her mother laugh , if she had not wanted to cry . |
| 12 | They teemed with wonders : individuals blessed with attributes that would have made them , in this , the Fifth Dominion , fit for sainthood , or burning , or both ; cults possessed of secrets that would overturn in a moment the dogmas of faith and physics alike ; beauty that might blind the sun , or set the moon dreaming of fertility . |
| 13 | I let your white flesh and your skinny body and your blond hair blot out things that would have made me shudder at home . |
| 14 | I was — like Flora with her mother — in the stupid position of being unable to put the one argument that would have made her feel some sympathy for me . |
| 15 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 16 | The only thing that would have made it better was if it was in 3-D . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If I did not believe that , I would have advised our club president , James King , to go to a venue that would have made us a comparative fortune . ’ |
| 18 | Presently there were feet on the stairs — a headlong clatter that would have frightened her had she been capable of ordinary feelings . |
| 19 | Her humour is a weapon that has pole-vaulted her out of the solid folk-roots category , an alternative scene that would have kept her firmly away from the mainstream . |
| 20 | Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . |
| 21 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
| 22 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
| 23 | Now , just as Norman thought he had rekindled his old flame with a closing 63 at Montego Bay that would have floored anyone but Faldo , he must recover his wits again . |
| 24 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 25 | Attractive as you are , Caroline , there are hotels in Milano that would have served my purpose — if a night with you had been what I wanted . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes his patients lacked the kind of knowledge that would have enabled them to interpret the experience as ‘ sexual ’ at all . |
| 27 | But because the unit has yet to be completed , they were unable to join a timeshare exchange scheme that would have enabled them to take a family holiday in Florida at Easter . |
| 28 | Hardy lacked the social confidence to make his way in professional circles , and also the formal education that would have enabled him to follow Horace Moule , his close friend from Dorchester days , to university and a career in the church . |
| 29 | Again the Mirror could have offered each of them a solution that would have saved them time and money . |
| 30 | John Beck 's unfashionable team have turned the derided ‘ long ball ’ game into something of an art form , but their aerial bombardment of the Wolves goal failed to bring them the victory that would have enhanced their promotion prospects . |