Example sentences of "he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 2 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 3 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I only did what anyone else who loved him would have done . |
| 5 | On the phone the other day you said that if only you and Dennis had had children then something of him would have survived . |
| 6 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 7 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 8 | But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money . |
| 9 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 10 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 11 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 12 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 13 | Mum you know when you had to take Michael downstairs when he was screaming , Stacey was , he would 've gone off just Stacey was chat was talking . |
| 14 | She was good as gold ; I do n't know what he would 've done without her ! ’ |
| 15 | No he would 've done if you had n't , but he says this |
| 16 | Oh I 'd 've thought he would 've done . |
| 17 | un unfortunately he has but , you know , and James goes , he goes God that really does n't sound like Sal , I really would n't have thought he would 've done that to you . |
| 18 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 19 | If someone had told him that he 'd been angry a moment before , he would 've denied it . |
| 20 | he would 've said Irene next . |
| 21 | But at the same time so presumably he would 've supported it . |
| 22 | He would 've tried to get away with it . |
| 23 | Willy used to come from school and she used to come up me mum 's house with a , so could have a suck of the tit he would 've come from school and you 'd expect him the night at me mam 's house |
| 24 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 25 | It was n't going to leave until half past three , four o'clock , he would 've arrived at fishing at half past five , he 's gon na be late , unless he does very well very quickly , then he wo n't be late . |
| 26 | Oh Trevor was quite good he di he d he would 've got his big pay rise today an did n't push it too much I do n't think perhaps it 's Nick though |
| 27 | He would have to grind on till one o'clock . |
| 28 | He also referred to US intelligence operations which , he said , he would have presented as evidence in his defence but which had been suppressed . |
| 29 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 30 | If the driver had seen that I was hurt , he would have stopped , and I was not up to explaining why I could not accept a lift . |