Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : I thought , sir , you would have distinguished between a command where my conscience was concerned an a common point . |
| 2 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 3 | Rose would call teasingly but he would have gone with a slam of the door . |
| 4 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 5 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 6 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins . |
| 7 | Anyone would have felt at a disadvantage in such a situation . |
| 8 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 9 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 10 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 11 | But he could not have guessed that , almost fifty years later , Eliot would be loaded with honours and with happiness while he himself would have retreated into a silence of guilt and despair . |
| 12 | Seven or eight had died in hospital , yes , and some of those would have lingered for a day or two ; fair enough or even blond genug , as the Army usually put it . |
| 13 | She remembered how huge she had thought the Longhills ' kitchen on her arrival in Nordale , and reckoned that it would have fitted into a corner of this one . |
| 14 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 15 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |
| 16 | In any case , William Tell would have shot with a cross-bow , not a barebow ! |
| 17 | The ‘ English Hiss ’ would have served as a description of him too . |
| 18 | In its sympathy for the families of the victims , the public was inclined to forget that any passenger aircraft with the Stars and Stripes on its tail would have served as a target as well as another . |
| 19 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 20 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 21 | Mary Leapor , however , would have studied under a man named Richard Cooper who made strenuous efforts to improve the school during the middle years of the century [ Clarke ] . |
| 22 | However , since only 12% of the duodenal ulcer patients in a parallel , multicentre German study were H pylori negative and since , furthermore , neither the presence not the density of H pylori colonisation affected ulcer healing , it is unlikely that H pylori would have emerged as a risk factor for delayed healing in the present study . |
| 23 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 24 | In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress . |
| 25 | Walt Whitman would have merged with a kerb like that . |
| 26 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |
| 27 | These will probably be things that they would have kept as a matter of course in their store cupboard in earlier days , but have gradually dropped off their shopping list as they grew older and only had themselves to cook for ; so there is no question of giving them new ideas — only trying to revive old ones , which may tempt them to prepare more varied and nourishing meals to achieve a balanced diet . |
| 28 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 29 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 30 | It can not be the case , however , that every initial configuration would have led to a universe like the one we observe . |