Example sentences of "would have [verb] a [adj] [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 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
4 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
5 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
8 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
9 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
10 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
11 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | If Fen had n't returned by morning she would have to pack a few essentials , lock up the boat and make her way back to Little Kirkton by public transport , and Fen would have achieved his objective — to be rid of her . |
14 | 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 . ’ |