Example sentences of "[noun sg] i would have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If I 'd wanted to spend over five hours on the golf course I would have become a greenkeeper and not a professional golfer . " |
| 2 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 3 | It is also possible to express condition through subject-verb inversion in rather more formal or literary style : Had I had enough money I would have bought a new car . |
| 4 | A prompt reply I would have deemed a common decency , you being a fellow screenplay writer , though I must say I have never cared for your work , finding it , at once , both florid and superficial . |
| 5 | Because if I 'd have come home and it 'd been a mess I would have had a face the longest of all ! |
| 6 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 7 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure that in your place I 'd have done the same . |
| 9 | At one point I would have to answer a long-distance phone call , which would keep me out of the room for half an hour . |
| 10 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 11 | I wo i i if I 'd of had a phone I 'd have phoned the police then , I said to Stuart . |
| 12 | The Reds were well on top and I am sure that if I had lasted the game I would have given the selectors something to think about . |
| 13 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the season I would have had an each-way bet each on Llanelli and Neath to win the title , but you all know what has happened to Neath . |
| 15 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 16 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 17 | All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did . |
| 18 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 19 | William Langley said : ‘ He certainly did n't say he was from the British National Party and there is no way I would have signed the form if I had known . ’ |
| 20 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 21 | At a time when he was lounging about in bed most of the time I would have loved a bed tray but I not think , I do n't think I 'm going to bother with one now . |
| 22 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 23 | My 1982 Land Rover Stage I V8 station wagon performs well at low speeds , but when pulling in the gears or at higher speeds , lacks the power I would have thought the V8 should deliver . |
| 24 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |