Example sentences of "[pron] would have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | And I would have bested those blighters eventually , you know . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I grumbled because I would have to remain several days more without Pinard . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have had different children . |
| 6 | I would have thought those things could have been pretty closely calculated . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I would have chosen better circumstances , ’ said Rocastle . |
| 8 | I would have to change certain things I 'd planned . |
| 9 | A number of years ago , I would have bought two papers on a Sunday , the Observer and the Sunday Times . |
| 10 | Well I would have expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquors you 've obviously not had a licence for a month . |
| 11 | I would have picked these players for the 18 men squad : |
| 12 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | THERE WERE pumpkins the size of bean bags and groups of onions which would have made fair roofs for Byzantine churches . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There are remains of four levels of wall , the lowest of which would have had wooden gates to protect its main entrance . |
| 17 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 18 | There were also calls in Tokyo for a revival of proposed legislation , dropped last year , which would have compelled Japanese companies to run their foreign operations to domestic standards . |
| 19 | ‘ The night flight to Beijing makes everything we have said about our disgust and revulsion at the Chinese Government 's action into empty words , ’ complained a congresswoman , Ms Nancy Pelosi , sponsor of the law vetoed by President Bush , which would have allowed Chinese students to remain in the US after their visas expired . |
| 20 | Like-for-like replacement will be needed in the short term instead of larger-scale installation of newer systems which would have allowed faster trains . |
| 21 | Beyond a yew hedge is the Kitchen Garden which would have supplied fresh vegetables for the household . |
| 22 | We know that the Government have blocked the directive on part-time workers , which would have helped many women in Britain . |
| 23 | Managing director Bernard Segrave-Daly said he had also been hoping the Chancellor would have introduced a duty system which would have helped smaller firms . |
| 24 | However , the coalition was then split again , over telecommunications contracts signed unilaterally by the ( Flemish ) Posts and Telecommunications Minister Marcel Colla ( which would have benefited Flemish companies ) , and over the allocation of television licence fees to the regions ( which Wallonia needed to help pay teachers ' wages — see also p. 38465 ) . |
| 25 | Finally , as regards the poll tax , it was on the grounds that disabled people should be treated as ‘ normal ’ citizens that the government rejected the Allen amendment in the House of Lords , which would have offered extra rebates to poor disabled people to cover the full cost of poll-tax payments wherever they may live . |
| 26 | I find on the balance of probabilities that if she did not achieve the necessary results for entry to college in the Summer of nineteen eighty seven , she would have achieved such grades by using the year Summer nineteen eighty seven to Summer nineteen eighty eight to re-site whatever was necessary . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | But , if he was n't going to give her more concrete help himself , she would have to find other allies . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ She would have had regular checks , and any shots . |