Example sentences of "[pron] would have [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you see , if I 'd known what she was really planning , I 'd have asked more questions ? |
| 2 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 3 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 4 | Here and there I would have liked more intensity in nostalgic song ( not least from the lyrical cello ) and more devil-may-care abandon in the livelier dance episodes . |
| 5 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 6 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 7 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 8 | But she would have taken more pains than I ( and far more than Roger ) not to hurt them . |
| 9 | From a writer who edited Elle in its snazziest phase you would have expected more nous . |
| 10 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 11 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 12 | If we did not find it , we would have to lay more water pipes . |
| 13 | They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s . |
| 14 | I reckon he 'd have scored more goals then than he has now . |
| 15 | You 'd have thought he 'd have had more sense . ’ |
| 16 | With Dr Lange he would have had more confidence . |
| 17 | He would have earned more income on the seven thousand pounds . |
| 18 | Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago . |
| 19 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 20 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 21 | She said another member of the family would have been able to help after the theft but it would have caused more inconvenience . |
| 22 | But it would have taken more courage than I could muster . |
| 23 | Cardinal Suenens pointed out to him that although no one could say he had no right to produce Humanae Vitae on his own , it would have had more credibility had it been collegially prepared . |