Example sentences of "[pron] would have [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I would have to lose 10 teaching posts , and several ancillary appointments we 've made to allow teachers to concentrate on teaching . |
| 3 | I would have thought one sticker would be sufficient really . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A number of years ago , I would have bought two papers on a Sunday , the Observer and the Sunday Times . |
| 6 | The threat comes at a time when BA is putting on extra flights to cover the rush , which would have seen 100,000 passengers a day at Heathrow alone . |
| 7 | Difficulties were thought to arise over reaching agreement on a headquarters for a merged society , which would have had 75,000 customers and combined assets of £350m . |
| 8 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 9 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 10 | Who would have thought fifteen years on , we would have progressed to tractor-mounted brush and flame-weeders ? |
| 11 | ‘ If this had been a Serbian place you would have sent 500 troops here , I guarantee it , ’ Mr Delimustafic said . |
| 12 | So , if you 'd been knitting , you would have knitted one way and slipped the other . |
| 13 | The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent . |
| 14 | Every year we would have to finish two mats . |
| 15 | To be honest it was a game we would have won 99 times out of a 100 , but this was one of those occasions when we were destined not to do it . |
| 16 | But Coun Shephard , who is chairman of the district 's environmental health committee , said he had spoken to two families who were told only last month they would have to wait 50 weeks . |
| 17 | That , despite the recession and the fact that they would have to forfeit two weeks work . |
| 18 | ‘ He would have felt three times as virtuous , ’ I said , and the barman looked at me blankly . |
| 19 | HAD Nigel Lawson toured the tea bars at the Blackpool Winter Gardens yesterday , he would have found one topic on everyone 's lips — increased interest rates . |
| 20 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’ |
| 22 | If he 'd tried to bottle it up he would have exploded one way or the other long before now . |
| 23 | The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — Santa Cruz says it would have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 systems still make up half its business . |
| 24 | Quantum theory implies that it would have to move 207 times closer to the central proton to maintain the stability of the atom . |
| 25 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 26 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |
| 27 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Surely this must be one of the very first models here and at that time I never heard of anyone owning one ( it would have taken six weeks wages to pay for it ) . |
| 29 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 30 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |