Example sentences of "[adv] would [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 2 | Two divers had gone down into the river during the morning , but had found no item of relevance ; and perhaps would not have recognised its relevance had they found it . |
| 3 | The fact that growing numbers of students are making the personal decision to go into higher education each year suggests strongly that our system of student support , far from providing a deterrent , is encouraging more people to go into higher education , who perhaps would not have had the confidence to do so or the belief that it is appropriate for them . |
| 4 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 5 | Why do n't the B B C , both radio and television , take advertising , and then we not only would not need to pay an extra twenty quid , we probably would n't need to pay the eighty odd pounds that we 're paying already for a colour television licence . |
| 6 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 7 | He was n't out on the Safari circuit with Brian Harley so would n't have picked up his bonuses . ’ |
| 8 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 9 | To have done so would only have raised expectations and created disappointment without necessarily allaying the suspicions concerning the objectivity of an inevitably subjective selection procedure . |
| 10 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 11 | ‘ And you obviously would n't put accepting a bribe beyond you partner either , would you ? ’ |
| 12 | She immediately discounted that idea , realising that , had Lubor known , then he obviously would n't have asked her to dine himself . |
| 13 | So he obviously would n't have thought the union would have been much of a threat to him seeing as he |
| 14 | Might even have had my Steven in would n't have known him . |
| 15 | I personally would n't regard having to contact Germany for spares as the end of the world , and have always found Warwick to be extremely helpful in such circumstances . |
| 16 | But he admits , cost-effectiveness does depend on the number of users involved — with up to 100 users it is cheaper to use Unix , while he personally would n't suggest running a mainframe with fewer than 200 users . |
| 17 | Erm a park tends to give the impression of being like a memorial park , erm equally it 's not just earmarked for football , which is it could be er seen as just that , the idea was that it would provide facilities for all types of sports and interests throughout the er throughout the area , particularly er girls , I know girls play football but there 's a lot of interest in er sport particularly hockey , and I personally would n't like to see it just dominated by football . |
| 18 | Windows 3.1 is much better in this respect and claims that it is safe to carry on after killing an application but I personally would still prefer to re-start Windows . |
| 19 | I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces . |
| 20 | Firing in the square below would not have impressed the President overly . |
| 21 | This plan alone would not have restored the group 's fortunes . |
| 22 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
| 23 | The reindeers just would not have managed without him on this dark Christmas Eve , they would have got lost . |
| 24 | For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have … |
| 25 | there was no sort of , you know , about handshake or anything daft like that he just , he just would n't let go of my hand so I had to pull off really . |
| 26 | I 've been leaking , leaking like a tap , and my muscles just would n't work to turn off the water . " |
| 27 | ‘ I know , ’ Kitty said , ‘ but I 'd never have thought of it without you , it just would n't have crossed my mind . |
| 28 | Oh aye , oh aye , just would n't have got given these jobs years ago . |
| 29 | I do n't think the I do n't think the D T I would have issued a investment management certificate to Robert Maxwell you know because he 'd done naughty things in the past , so he just would n't have got the certificate . |
| 30 | It just would n't have happened I mean |