Example sentences of "as he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And had he not been perfectly willing , of course , to hit a woman every bit as hard as he would have struck a man . |
| 2 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 3 | Much as he would have liked to try to rescue Murray , he recognised that to be out of the question . |
| 4 | So , much as he would have liked to ride for Perthshire with his friends , in especial Mariot , he left them , to turn up Eskside , but promising to come to Doune before long . |
| 5 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |
| 6 | I know he did n't fit into his parish as well as he would have liked . |
| 7 | Bartocci might be convinced of his conspiracy theory , but Zen just could n't take it seriously , much as he would have liked to . |
| 8 | He could be demonic — like the time someone fresh came to the ‘ Carry On ’ team , who was n't quite as professional as he would have liked . ’ |
| 9 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 10 | Not too late , Chris Court said , as he would have to listen for the Division bell and might have to run for it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 13 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 14 | Then Pumfrey did try to comfort him , as he would have done one of his own . |
| 15 | It had not occurred to him that Jessica 's behaviour might have put a suitor off , more that Parr would want to go and smack her cheeky face , as he would have done . |
| 16 | They will offer us Mozart 's music as he would have played it and heard it in his own day . |
| 17 | That 's about thirty miles each way — a terribly long way to come , particularly as he would have to cross London . ’ |
| 18 | Such a tale as he would have to tell would be instantly dismissed , the court being in the frame of mind it was . |
| 19 | As it came through Rose he encouraged it as much as he would have discouraged visits to any other neighbouring house . |
| 20 | He could not be returned , as he would have wished , to his pre-birth environment , but he was put into a close facsimile of it immediately . |
| 21 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |
| 22 | She dimly perceived the terrible conflict that went on in Johnny 's mind between the dark side of his nature and the knowledge of how he should behave — of the actions expected of him because , as he would have put it , he was a Gentleman . |
| 23 | Karazoglou said in his aromatic broken French that he was sure Leverrier had never been there , as he would have told him . |
| 24 | El-Jorr felt the loss as keenly as he would have mourned his cowboy boots or his 4 × 4 Chevy with the Texas plates — the card was a basic prop of his all-American image . |
| 25 | Only a man as blank as he would have failed to see the hollowness of my enthusiasm . |
| 26 | Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness . |
| 27 | The YCs speaker was implicitly emphasizing the commonality between national and international interests within capitalism ( or ‘ the west ’ , as he would have preferred a term which suggest geography rather than politics ) . |
| 28 | He found his account , as he would have expected , consistent , and considered the man carefully as he did so . |
| 29 | The voice , with its timbre of upper-class arrogance , an arrogance of which its owner so often seems unaware , was exactly as he would have expected . |
| 30 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |