Example sentences of "would have [verb] [prep] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the reason they probably did this because it 's , it 's , it was politically harder to do that , they would 've had to taken a lot more responsibility . |
| 2 | Donizetti 's resources did not run to the excesses a more modern composer would have applied in depicting a tormented mind . |
| 3 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 4 | If he had known what fate lay in store for his beloved Boks perhaps State President F.W. de Klerk would have decided against holding a midweek reception for the three teams about to lock horns for the supremacy of the Southern Hemisphere some 200 metres down an old mine shaft on the Johannesburg Reef — Shaft 14 , Gold Reed City , to be precise . |
| 5 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 6 | Government simply had to act ; not to do so would have amounted to avoiding a problem that was ‘ evident ’ and ‘ plain' to all , particularly those who watched the news on television ! |
| 7 | He could at least spend the money on it that he would have used in buying a ticket to see Dinah , in powdered wig and paduasoy , as Lady Teazle , once again . |
| 8 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |