Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather have said it all to his face ! |
| 2 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that if CCs had been on offer at the time , Bruin would probably have taken them all . |
| 4 | If it acknowledged his existence , it would also have to acknowledge its own existence , thereby inviting precisely the attention it had to avoid . |
| 5 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 6 | Seeing Rohan , even fleetingly in a crowd , would simply have caused her more pain , especially at a wedding with all its attendant might-have-beens , she told herself forcefully . |
| 7 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 8 | So the fact that the vehicle has been out on shall we a mor a morning delivery and the the back shift man comes in and has a look at it , he would then have to do it all again . |
| 9 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |
| 10 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 11 | If he had not felt really bad he would never have drunk it all , he would have saved some for me . ’ |
| 12 | They say Pringle would never have harmed his former girlfriend Leanne Rees , who was held hostage at the house in Lyonette Road , Darlington . |