Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yeah , I would 've thought so because le |
| 2 | Had we reduced the dividend , our share price would have fallen sharply but , as I write a few days after the Annual General Meeting , the share price is a robust 180p — 26 times our earnings per share . |
| 3 | Surely those disadvantaged by the consequences of the military-industrial complex would have risen up and used their democratic rights to question it ? |
| 4 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 5 | Gossip they would have heard fast and in copious quantities , but a more systematic set of information they did not possess . |
| 6 | Generally the more expensive books would have gone already and only occasionally did I have to spend more than £5 , often far less . |
| 7 | Yeah I would have gone up and down with graphs . |
| 8 | Well erm David said that he did n't think the strike would have gone on or they would n't have the heart to go on without the women ? |
| 9 | With busy pomposity Lewis dictated it to a typist and would have gone on and on had he not been diplomatically restrained . |
| 10 | It follows that the continuing heavy costs of care at Hunstead Park would have gone on and would have been a proper claim against this defendant . |
| 11 | If the lightning had struck a foot nearer Buxton Road it would have gone right though the roof and considerable damage would have been done . |
| 12 | Erm , and I would have gone home and said I 'm sorry darling , a major client ca n't afford to pay these people , and so on and so forth . |
| 13 | Word would have gone out that she was going to do it again tonight . |
| 14 | If I 'd had a gun I would have gone out and shoo shot out the whole neighbourhood . |
| 15 | You would have gone out and bought it . |
| 16 | The letter was the standard letter that would have gone out if the claim had been entertained . |
| 17 | ‘ He would have gone more than five thou . ’ |
| 18 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 19 | Notable performances here came from 10 year old Ben Bransby , who finished seventh in the men 's event , Emma Williams , who dominated the women 's event , and eight year old Adam Dewhurst , who would have placed higher than his tenth if he had been able to reach all the holds ! |
| 20 | ‘ The merger provides the potential for developing more business than we would have achieved separately and I am confident that we have the basis for a successful future . |
| 21 | ‘ Many of your countrymen — no , many of the Germans we have talked about — think Hitler would have stepped back if Churchill had been in power . |
| 22 | I probably would have stayed longer if I had n't fallen in love with Isobel . |
| 23 | What made me go out that night when , normally , I would have stayed in and watched television ? |
| 24 | Oh yes , if everybody would have stayed out they would never had a scrap of slate made there , everybody would have stayed out and stayed out till the end , and not a scrap of slate would have been made there . |
| 25 | If I had believed what they said about me , I would have crawled away and given up . |
| 26 | ‘ I say his head would have ached fiercely after it , ’ said Hugh at once , ‘ but nothing worse . |
| 27 | He would have stripped completely while she watched . |
| 28 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 29 | Puritan and Calvinistic tradition would not approve of actually enjoying such a ceremony and no doubt someone would have pointed out that Ruth first caught Boaz 's eye by uncovering his feet as he slept and lying alongside them . |
| 30 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |