Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All in all , I 'd rather have missed the pharmacist .
2 All in all , I 'd rather have missed the pharmacist .
3 ‘ I 'd rather have given the bastards the cab ranks than see Antney dead . ’
4 I was n't too impressed with this — I 'd rather have seen a film — but Andy thought it was all right , so I did too .
5 I 'd rather have have a cup of tea
6 I 'd rather have had a knife .
7 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 .
8 And er er the week following we 'd all have to spell the word we 'd chose .
9 They wo n't like it in here , too hot ; but it 's quicker for the morning , otherwise I 'd only have to cross the yard to get them .
10 ‘ Of course , ’ the Doctor had said , and the memory of his voice was so real that she almost heard the words in her ears , ‘ if anyone wanted to infiltrate the TARDIS with any kind of intelligence , from a virus to an entire computer , they 'd only have to plug a cable into the socket under the console .
11 Go off and we 'd just have to bear the costs .
12 If it had n't been for him I 'd not have reached the standards that I 've achieved , ’ said Zara .
13 So , given that he 'd always have to keep a foot in England , if only during the cricket season , and given that as long as he kept a presence here he would be answerable to the Society , he had to face them .
14 He 'd probably have to lose a leg , was the MO 's report .
15 If I want to do some slap bass or play some very fast , light jazzy stuff , I 'd probably have to wear the bass quite high up , almost Mark King height , to really be comfortable .
16 If he 'd known he was gaining the approval of the future , he 'd probably have kept the money to himself
17 Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into .
18 He 'd simply have acquired a spectator and a potential liability .
19 ‘ Of course , I 'd never have breathed a syllable if he 'd kept quiet about the dog track . ’
20 ‘ Anyway , I examined the body myself ; I 'd never have missed a thing like that . ’
21 She 'd never have suspected the Viking of possessing culinary skills .
22 ‘ I 'd never have called a boy Apricot . ’
23 I 'd never have associated a man like Tweed with such an atrocity . ’
24 Had it been anyone other than Marty , I 'd never have spent every weekend preparing and refining the script , then repeating it as I did .
25 He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’
26 I took it back afterwards and wear it partially in his memory , partially because I 'd never have spent the money on myself .
27 She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work .
28 You 'd certainly have to rewrite the communion service , for young people to understand it .
29 As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples .
30 Perhaps it was inevitable that he would eventually have to follow the likes of Gary Oldman across the Atlantic .
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