Example sentences of "i 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 .
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