Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she not taken her weight off them they would simply have given way . |
| 2 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 3 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 4 | If you 'd tape it for me you would n't have , I would n't have to have |
| 5 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 6 | Churchill , who at first thought it was the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster which was the proposition and for which he would happily have settled , accepted the greater post with tears in his eyes and an expression of grateful loyalty . |
| 7 | Frankly , a lot of them I would n't have allowed in my own home , let alone the Palace . |
| 8 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 9 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 10 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 11 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 12 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 13 | Without people like him we would n't have a PFK magazine and that would be about as bad as never having heard of fish at all ! |
| 14 | Once the heavy doors closed behind him he would never have to see her again . |
| 15 | Of course with a heart like his it would n't have taken long , but why pick on strychnine when he had a fair selection of the British Pharmacopoeia in his dispensary to choose from ? |
| 16 | There was a feeling that the Town Boys were an arrogant elite and to actually get in with them you would probably have to do a lot of serious drinking in the Marlborough Arms . |
| 17 | In a way she hoped he had not and yet , on the other hand , she believed the news would have made his final days very happy , however heinous the deceit with which she would always have to live . |
| 18 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel sure that if the Corporation of Exeter had had the facts of the present case brought before them they would never have insisted upon the payment of a toll which they clearly would have had no right to insist on if the plaintiff had but claimed exemption upon landing the limestone . |
| 20 | She was relieved to see no sign of Pen , before whom she would not have wished to speak freely . |
| 21 | Jobbers often faced one-way markets in which they would either have to buy a greater number of shares than they had sold ( go ‘ long ’ ) or they had bought ( go ‘ short ’ ) . |
| 22 | However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process . |
| 23 | She , who had always helped lame dogs , now refused the many helping hands that were held out to her , because they only hauled her back , temporarily , into a life of comfort from which she would later have to return to reality . |
| 24 | This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . |
| 25 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 26 | For him it would simply have been a matter of bringing the girl along , telling my mother she was coming with them and paying her handsomely for the hardship occasioned . ’ |
| 27 | and if it had n't been for him I would n't have them , |
| 28 | If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams . |
| 29 | ‘ If you were really so concerned for her you would n't have taken any notice of me . |
| 30 | Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position . |