Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have thought the same thing would apply to you , ’ she said , evading a direct answer . |
| 3 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 4 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 5 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 6 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 7 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 8 | Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 10 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 11 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 12 | To make assurance doubly sure-and also to begin a move in the direction of greater picturability — let us now see how Schrödinger would have obtained the same result . |
| 13 | There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice . |
| 14 | Surely any woman would have reacted the same way on discovering a supposed admirer was in reality only after her possessions ? |
| 15 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 16 | First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ? |
| 17 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 18 | Even a government with substantial majority support would have encountered the same opposition . |
| 19 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 20 | All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did . |
| 21 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 22 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |
| 23 | And major social reforms — the establishment of free trade unions or the redistribution of noble land — would have had the same effect . |
| 24 | Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 26 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 27 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 28 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |