Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 2 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 3 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 4 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 5 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 6 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 7 | Then Paul Weller formed a group with the extraordinarily hopeless name of The Paul Weller Movement ( for someone so fascinated by Englishness , you 'd think he 'd have noticed the national Jokes About Bowels obsession ) , started performing Jam songs and left Polydor . |
| 8 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 9 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 10 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 11 | It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens |
| 12 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 13 | So you see you you 'd have gone the wrong place would n't you if you 'd followed what |
| 14 | I 'd have gone the next Thursday after like . |
| 15 | I could n't go without the gear , so I 'd have missed the first day . |
| 16 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
| 17 | The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable . |
| 18 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 19 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 20 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 21 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 22 | If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now . |
| 23 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 24 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
| 26 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 27 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 28 | If I 'd known you did n't , I 'd have tried a different way … |
| 29 | If you were sleeping with me , I 'd have booked a double room . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |