Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I would 've thought most golf |
| 2 | I would 'ave took that title , Danny , ’ he said passionately , his voice almost breaking with a note of despair . |
| 3 | I would have revised all afternoon . |
| 4 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 5 | I would have said that way . |
| 6 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 7 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 8 | I would have done two doors I think , someone knocking on a door and but I do n't think anyone would have got it . |
| 9 | If I 'd known you was coming I would have done that bit of chicken . |
| 10 | I would have savoured this piece of news with greater relish had I not been booked on BA724 to Geneva at 0845 that morning . |
| 11 | And I would have bested those blighters eventually , you know . ’ |
| 12 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has its pointers to the future , but I would have forgiven any Vienna professor in 1876 who failed to predict what was to follow . |
| 15 | ‘ I would have had different children . |
| 16 | A little longer and I would have had some difficulty . ’ |
| 17 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 18 | I do n't really think at that time I would have had enough experience to justify going on the staff . |
| 19 | I would have thought one sticker would be sufficient really . |
| 20 | I would have thought those things could have been pretty closely calculated . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ For it to be successful , I would have thought some form of power at least to recommend smallish settlements would be a useful aspect … but I would n't envisage the ombudsman as someone dealing with huge claims . ’ |
| 22 | Not many years ago I would have considered this rod as too stiff , robbing me of the enjoyment of feeling and seeing a good fish put a decent bend into it . |
| 23 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
| 24 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 25 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ I would have chosen better circumstances , ’ said Rocastle . |
| 27 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 28 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 29 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 30 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |