Example sentences of "but he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no evidence that Wordsworth ever studied Rousseau in a systematic way , but he would have met with his influence in France , if not well before . |
| 2 | Rose would call teasingly but he would have gone with a slam of the door . |
| 3 | Barthes 's was a very modern mind but he would have liked the idea of being one day accepted into this tiny pantheon of local literary notables . |
| 4 | The King could have ridden further inland , but he would have lost his way on the wild , grassy moorland which conceals marsh and bog to trap the unwary traveller . |
| 5 | But he would have to go through them all one by one . |
| 6 | She got into her car and pointed it homewards , and , unable to see who else but he would have contacted Paul Fisher 's head of department , she unexpectedly started to feel quite kindly disposed to Naylor Massingham . |
| 7 | It 's very tragic but he would have done it for anybody . |
| 8 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 9 | She would be confused , but he would have to deal with that . |
| 10 | None but he would have noticed the gleam of gold and diamonds — the ring on the dead man 's finger as his hand broke the surface . |
| 11 | If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end . |
| 12 | But he would have to try and be a little more compliant , throw a little more charm around . |
| 13 | She would not , of course , have been surprised to hear her father making one of his many nocturnal pilgrimages , but he would have taken his stick , banged doors , bumped against furniture , turned on lights , even sung an old pop song from the sixties if he could have been sure of waking the children . |
| 14 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 15 | Not that he 'd go , but he would have helped anyone who wanted to . |
| 16 | He would have disapproved of it equally in contemporary western Europe and contemporary TDC , but he would have had to look for quite different explanations for its occurrence . |
| 17 | Staff could probably provide him with something to eat , but he would have to obtain water for himself . |
| 18 | Ronnie could have done with one himself but he would have got arrested . ’ |
| 19 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 20 | His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself . |
| 21 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 22 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 23 | He wondered about making himself a hot drink but he 'd have to wait too long to drink it . |
| 24 | But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed . |
| 25 | But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it . |
| 26 | He could make five thousand more in the City , but he 'd have to put up with all the yuppies . |
| 27 | But he 'd have to drop the lemon tea lark when he went back to the Battalion ; it would be like turning up wearing a frock . |
| 28 | But he 'd have to get a doctor . |
| 29 | Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly . |