Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they had been , they 'd never have allowed me to mix with their children . |
| 2 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 4 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
| 5 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 6 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 7 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 8 | He would really have liked me to do medicine , but I showed no interest in biology , which seemed to me to be too descriptive and not sufficiently fundamental . |
| 9 | And my Grandmother certainly would n't have wanted me going She had er her feet very firmly on the ground . |
| 10 | ‘ I know Suzanne would n't have wanted me to blame her or be angry either . ’ |
| 11 | She would n't have liked me sleeping with him , but if you 're going to sleep with him , you get contraceptives . |
| 12 | They would n't have got me to come if I had n't had , if I . |
| 13 | It just would n't have happened I mean |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
| 15 | I would n't , I , I mean , yeah , but I mean I would n't have thought I mean they 're certainly |
| 16 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 17 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 18 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 19 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 20 | Except call in the Bow Street Runners , although your mama would even have had me do that , she was so distraught . ’ |
| 21 | My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock . |