Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd have turned me into another of her tasteless folk stories , I expect ! |
| 2 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 3 | If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost . |
| 4 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 5 | You 'd have warned her about all the people her revelations would hurt . |
| 6 | with , he 'd have put them on one side and said |
| 7 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd have got them for five or six quid a window |
| 9 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 10 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 11 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 12 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 13 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 14 | When she then kills the prey , it is impossible to prove that she does so to demonstrate the act of killing , because she would have killed it in any case , in order to eat it . |
| 15 | A villainous raid upon the Stockade where the men do lie and even upon ourselves where we dwell at Belmont would have robbed us of all we have assured thus far by the Grace of God . |
| 16 | Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle . |
| 17 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 18 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 19 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 20 | They would have cast him in many a role in one of their plays . |
| 21 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
| 22 | That would have sent her into another tantrum . |
| 23 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 24 | Neither Elizabeth nor James , he said , had allowed the Duchy of Lancaster to be absorbed into the Exchequer , because the abolition of its offices would have deprived them of valuable rewards for their servants . |
| 25 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 27 | His own inclination would have led him towards this first interview three or four days earlier . |
| 28 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 29 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 30 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |