Example sentences of "[pron] would have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I would have revised all afternoon . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I would have said that way . |
4 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Or I would have to do miserable work like illustrating , or even commercial stuff , to keep the home going . |
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 | I switched off the tape , realizing that I would have to listen another time to find out what the preacher was really saying . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I grumbled because I would have to remain several days more without Pinard . |
16 | I would have to lose 10 teaching posts , and several ancillary appointments we 've made to allow teachers to concentrate on teaching . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ I would have had different children . |
19 | A little longer and I would have had some difficulty . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | I do n't really think at that time I would have had enough experience to justify going on the staff . |
22 | I would have thought one sticker would be sufficient really . |
23 | I would have thought those things could have been pretty closely calculated . ’ |
24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
25 | 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 . |
26 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
27 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
28 | 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 . |
29 | ‘ I would have chosen better circumstances , ’ said Rocastle . |
30 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |