Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , I 'd rather have missed the pharmacist . |
| 2 | All in all , I 'd rather have missed the pharmacist . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd rather have given the bastards the cab ranks than see Antney dead . ’ |
| 4 | I was n't too impressed with this — I 'd rather have seen a film — but Andy thought it was all right , so I did too . |
| 5 | I 'd rather have have a cup of tea |
| 6 | I 'd rather have had a knife . |
| 7 | I expect when he was a little boy he 'd rather have had a Bible for his birthday than anything else in the world , even a bicycle . |
| 8 | And er er the week following we 'd all have to spell the word we 'd chose . |
| 9 | They wo n't like it in here , too hot ; but it 's quicker for the morning , otherwise I 'd only have to cross the yard to get them . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , ’ the Doctor had said , and the memory of his voice was so real that she almost heard the words in her ears , ‘ if anyone wanted to infiltrate the TARDIS with any kind of intelligence , from a virus to an entire computer , they 'd only have to plug a cable into the socket under the console . |
| 11 | Go off and we 'd just have to bear the costs . |
| 12 | So , given that he 'd always have to keep a foot in England , if only during the cricket season , and given that as long as he kept a presence here he would be answerable to the Society , he had to face them . |
| 13 | He 'd probably have to lose a leg , was the MO 's report . |
| 14 | If I want to do some slap bass or play some very fast , light jazzy stuff , I 'd probably have to wear the bass quite high up , almost Mark King height , to really be comfortable . |
| 15 | If he 'd known he was gaining the approval of the future , he 'd probably have kept the money to himself |
| 16 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 17 | He 'd simply have acquired a spectator and a potential liability . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , I 'd never have breathed a syllable if he 'd kept quiet about the dog track . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , I examined the body myself ; I 'd never have missed a thing like that . ’ |
| 20 | She 'd never have suspected the Viking of possessing culinary skills . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd never have called a boy Apricot . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd never have associated a man like Tweed with such an atrocity . ’ |
| 23 | Had it been anyone other than Marty , I 'd never have spent every weekend preparing and refining the script , then repeating it as I did . |
| 24 | He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’ |
| 25 | I took it back afterwards and wear it partially in his memory , partially because I 'd never have spent the money on myself . |
| 26 | She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work . |
| 27 | You 'd certainly have to rewrite the communion service , for young people to understand it . |
| 28 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was inevitable that he would eventually have to follow the likes of Gary Oldman across the Atlantic . |
| 30 | He would gladly have given a year 's salary just to know what exactly was the relationship between these two . |