Example sentences of "we would have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 2 | If it if it had been a tie we would have tossed a coin . |
| 3 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 4 | All of his slides were chosen for a purpose , and were of high quality , although we would have liked a garden plan . |
| 5 | But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months . |
| 6 | There were moves to recast the play , but I wanted to stay with Ken and believed that if we could have got it into London we would have had a success . ’ |
| 7 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 8 | If it was just for money , then we would have had a ransom demand by now . ’ |
| 9 | If effort had counted for anything , we would have had a family of Catholic proportions . |
| 10 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 11 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 12 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |
| 13 | The ship that had followed us would have left a record of its course , and ours . |