Example sentences of "[pron] would have [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible .
2 oh the timetable which I as well will , will erm , would be about two months , the first step has to be taken by the defendant because we do n't know yet whether they are prepared to oppose the structure , and if so , what sort of structure they would be prepared to oppose , erm , if and when , er a formal offer of structure came through , I would have little doubt that we could instruct accountants and get a response within a matter of weeks , sometimes one has to if they 're doing an commercial structure within a week or so because the offer is only open for ten days
3 And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere .
4 These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes .
5 The main worry was whether I would have many players left for the play-offs through injury and suspension . ’
6 ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it .
7 What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ?
8 Of course , I would have few grounds for complaint had the words attributed to me been my own .
9 Much as I was itching to play with the Bob Marley , I knew I would have more chance of parking Armstrong illegally when I collected Werewolf .
10 I knew that I would return to this island again when I would have more time to search .
11 ‘ If I thought I would have any chance of success , I probably would , ’ she said sarcastically .
12 Last week I went to a fortune teller and she told me I would have another child even though I do n't want to .
13 I would have this country , con congress , to support this motion for the health and welfare of women members of the G B M B trade union , I move .
14 I would have some idiot life in another country because some medieval cleric in Iran decided I had to be killed . ’
15 On the one hand some teachers saw the process as a hindrance — as something they had to do for the LEA and which would have little consequence for themselves .
16 In addition , it discharges a host of minor , even trivial , functions , the cessation of which would have little impact on public life .
17 They made a demand of our waste , without offering any allowance for the same ; and by degrees did we tamely submit , we should be brought under a yoke , which would have some affinity to that of the Egyptian Bondage .
18 The sceptical arguments which would have this effect all require a move which the anti-realist would disallow , and hence never reach the annihilating conclusion .
19 It was something that had to be done at the same time as teaching , and was seen more , I suppose , as a chore rather than as something which would have any sort of positive spin-off for us .
20 The cynic in me says it is because the larger firms do not do small audits and because abolition would cause problems for the ACCA , which would have more difficulty maintaining an audit regulatory presence as fewer of their members would be auditing .
21 And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs .
22 She would have all summer in the secret garden before he came back .
23 If he went on like this she was n't even sure she would have enough composure to return to Vienna and resume her church and radio work .
24 Carrie was very pleased to see the change in her father now that he had settled into his new job , but she still fretted over her parents , and she had not forgotten her vow that one day she would have enough money to buy them a decent house to live in .
25 on the release of a writer 's first album , it is unlikely that he or she would have enough qualifying works to become a publisher member of PRS ( see the ‘ Copyright and Performing Right ’ article for details on these qualifying requirements ) .
26 She would have some breakfast , she decided , and then get away .
27 But she would have those things for ever ; she would have them in her head , in her memories and her dreams , and no one could take that away from her .
28 Larissa , 40 , became a teacher so that she would have more time with her children , but she spends most of her spare time in queues .
29 She remembered the doctor telling her , as gently as he could , that it was unlikely that she would have more children , and the shocked look on her husband 's face when he heard the news .
30 ‘ It 's all right , ’ said Scarlet , thinking that if that was all Camille accused her of , she would have few worries .
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