Example sentences of "he would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was good as gold ; I do n't know what he would 've done without her ! ’ |
| 4 | No he would 've done if you had n't , but he says this |
| 5 | Oh I 'd 've thought he would 've done . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If someone had told him that he 'd been angry a moment before , he would 've denied it . |
| 9 | he would 've said Irene next . |
| 10 | But at the same time so presumably he would 've supported it . |
| 11 | He would 've tried to get away with it . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | He would have to grind on till one o'clock . |
| 17 | He also referred to US intelligence operations which , he said , he would have presented as evidence in his defence but which had been suppressed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for Willie 's attentive expression he would have stopped . |
| 21 | They should have held back and he would have stopped . |
| 22 | Had it been any night other than Wednesday , he would have staggered out . |
| 23 | Paisley asserted that , had he wanted to destroy the Unionist Party , he would have fielded candidates in all the constituencies . |
| 24 | He would have to bind the boy while he slept , for in time he would have to sleep . |
| 25 | Not too late , Chris Court said , as he would have to listen for the Division bell and might have to run for it . |
| 26 | If an assailant had struck from behind , he would have toppled forward over the rail . |
| 27 | You could be forgiven for remembering John Gould as a brilliant painter of birds — that 's exactly what he would have wanted . |
| 28 | If Michael Heseltine had won the leadership in November 1990 , he would have wanted to call an immediate general election . |
| 29 | So I think it ended the way he would have wanted it to end . |
| 30 | That was the greatest gift , that was what he would have wanted most . |