Example sentences of "would have [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glance at her watch told her she would have to leave to catch a tram in half an hour . |
| 2 | She would have liked to take a look at the city 's cathedral square on which Castrum Babenberg , the castle of Bamberg , had once stood . |
| 3 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 4 | He would have liked to have a girl of his own in there , instead of all the dull books to review , and the first scribblings of the rough draft of his new novel . |
| 5 | so as much i hate it ( i would have loved to see a norwegian playing for leeds — i guess the dream will have to wait ) Frank is for sure going . |
| 6 | ‘ Emma and Becky 's lives were ended just before their 18th birthday when they would have begun to make a contribution to the world through the caring professions they had chosen to work in . |
| 7 | ‘ I did what anyone would have done to prevent a theft and I am glad no one was hurt , ’ he said . |
| 8 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 9 | No coffin-maker or funeral furnisher worthy of his reputation would have failed to dress a corpse , no matter how lowly his subject might have been . |
| 10 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |
| 11 | One would feel happier about the anthropic principle , at least in its weak version , if one could show that quite a number of different initial configurations for the universe would have evolved to produce a universe like the one we observe . |
| 12 | When her company offered her employment at new premises she could no longer walk to work but would have had to undergo a half-hour bus journey . |
| 13 | If by note , then she would have had to get a scribe to read it to her . |
| 14 | In order to see them he would have had to climb a couple of hundred feet more . |
| 15 | Under the new system Elizabeth and William would have had to pay a contribution of more than £1,000 even though they earn only about £7,200 between them . |