Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Look , " I said to Henniker , " I 'd rather like to have a word with Mr. Lennis before lunch . |
| 2 | I 'd rather have have a cup of tea |
| 3 | I 'd rather have had a knife . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So I 'll tell you I 'll tell you what to do with those in a minute but if y at the moment if you 'd just like to have a go at sorting it out . |
| 6 | I 'd also like to have a look at this Château de Belle Ile while we 're there . ’ |
| 7 | The times we hear ourselves saying ‘ I 'd really love to have a go at … , but I know I could n't do it ’ . |
| 8 | I 've never had any family at all , so I 'd really like to have an aunt . |
| 9 | Five months on , seeing Lisa with a plastic eye and seeing how she is , she gets so upset , I 'd really like to have the law changed covering guns . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not really into the whole bit of owning a second home , but I 'd dearly love to have a cottage in the country . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work . |
| 12 | But she would rather have had a handful of honest reviews . |
| 13 | Differences occurred as to means , but examination of the electoral manifestos throughout the 1960s and 1970s shows a reluctance to politicize issues which , given the intractable nature of crime and the limited efficacy of measures to counter it , would only have had the effect of exciting popular expectations beyond the capacity of any government to fulfil . |
| 14 | ‘ We have to remark that there is no doubt that our present Medical Officer , whose experience is greater in the treatment of patients in modern hospitals than in union workhouses , would naturally like to have the sick treated in the same way as in a large hospital , but taking into consideration cases under treatment , which are mostly chronic , as well as the means at the disposal of the Guardians , we can not recommend any sweeping alterations . |
| 15 | I am unable to cope with the idea of being any heavier than I am now , and would not like to have a period , since I would feel I had ‘ let up ’ control over my body . |
| 16 | Whilst Alison states at the end of Chapter 11 that she would not like to have a period as it would signify that she had ‘ let up ’ control over her body , Freya feels quite differently , realising that getting her periods back would be a good sign of recovery . |
| 17 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 18 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |
| 19 | As far as the second witness was concerned , the appeal court had reached the view that his new evidence would not have had a material bearing on the jury 's assessment of Leighton 's credibility . |
| 20 | It is likely that he chose a group of men to be his special disciples — apostles — because at that time a women would not have had the freedom to become travelling evangelists — to go round preaching and teaching . |
| 21 | In that case the laws of physics would hold even at the beginning of the universe , so God would not have had the freedom to choose the initial conditions . |
| 22 | The point that we were making in drawing attention to it was that , if the Labour party had been in power , he would not have had the freedom to buy shares in BT . |
| 23 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |
| 24 | Had the Prime Minister called a general election in October 1978 , as was expected , the Commons would not have had the opportunity to inflict a spectacular dismissal . |
| 25 | He would not have had the opportunity to command the attention of the media . |
| 26 | In any case he would not have had the confidence to approach one . |
| 27 | I know that in the past I would not have had the confidence to let children work on the problem . |
| 28 | The fact that growing numbers of students are making the personal decision to go into higher education each year suggests strongly that our system of student support , far from providing a deterrent , is encouraging more people to go into higher education , who perhaps would not have had the confidence to do so or the belief that it is appropriate for them . |
| 29 | You attempt things you previously would not have had the courage to do because you know you possess the power to save yourself ’ . |
| 30 | Married or unmarried , he would not have had the courage of his proclivities : he needed the pretence there had been because pretence was everything to him . |