Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
| 3 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 4 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 5 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 6 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 8 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |