Example sentences of "would have [verb] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing . |
2 | And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know . |
3 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
4 | Yeah actually I could have had that the other day if I 'd have thought but I did n't bother . |
5 | In Vienna , of course … my only conclusive recourse was to leave the city , which could not be arranged as quickly as I would have liked since I had army business there which demanded my attendance . |
6 | ‘ Mr. Preston , my life has n't been everything I would have liked since I came here . |
7 | I had infiltrated her teat with a local anaesthetic before stitching but I do n't think she would have moved if I had n't used any . |
8 | If this were the conclusion to a regular bass assessment , and not a fond peek into the past , I would have to say that I did n't get anywhere playing the VI . |
9 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
10 | When your dad eventually reached you he would have insisted that I marry you . ’ |
11 | Anyway , ’ I nodded into the trees , ‘ perhaps those bastards would have struck before I reached Glastonbury . |
12 | He says : ‘ I 'm not motivated by money , otherwise I would have quit after I 'd made my first eight million dollars , which was enough for me . |
13 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
14 | But , of course , she would have noticed so I told her and we turned the scoop to our advantage . |
15 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
16 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
17 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
18 | Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them ! |
19 | My terrors would have increased if I had known how once again Murder was stalking us , in that Godforsaken place . |
20 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
21 | Watch me and wonder what would have happened if I had n't sent you away last night , if I 'd done what I longed to do , if I 'd let you make love to me … |
22 | ‘ None of it would have happened if I had n't gone chasing after Guy . ’ |
23 | I ca n't bear to think of what would have happened if I had n't told you . |
24 | ‘ I could have arranged to be there when he called … none of this would have happened if I 'd been there to take care of her . ’ |
25 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
26 | Nothing you had done , or said , would have mattered if I had n't . |
27 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
28 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
29 | Sooner or later I would have to accept that I needed to look elsewhere . |
30 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |