Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] would have " in BNC.

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1 You , my comrade in arms , my friend for whom I would have given my life . ’
2 If the maid had arrived and was waiting for them she would have to be driven back to Mondano .
3 Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him .
4 Molly felt similarly safe , brought to this strange place about which she would have clearly so much to learn .
5 It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say .
6 To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed .
7 Here he learned from one of the officers captured in the High Bridge action and since released that Prince Charles was preparing to block the passage of the royal army at the Corrieyairack Pass , through which it would have to pass to reach Fort Augustus .
8 We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all .
9 It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics .
10 While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million .
11 Pressed by Clem and Mrs Vaughan to stay the night , Leonora declined with grateful thanks , hoping her longing to escape was n't visible to Penry 's family , all of whom she would have liked to know better under other circumstances .
12 Altogether it lasted a month and but for the neighbours rallying around and taking care of me I would have ended up in hospital .
13 If he knew of them he would have them destroyed at once , and I do n't want that to happen . ’
14 Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate .
15 This was our ‘ Marche Képi Blanc ’ , on completion of which we would have passed the tests to become legionnaires .
16 Count 4 charged the offence of a bankrupt removing property contrary to section 354(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , and alleged that on or about 23 March 1988 the appellant removed property , namely his interest in funds held jointly by himself and his wife amounting to £104,356.55 , possession of which he would have been required to deliver up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy .
17 But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term .
18 Then below it you would have da da , year and somehow the subject fitted in on a line across , below it ?
19 She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway .
20 It may well be that had they known of it they would have been even more exigent .
21 This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly .
22 The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed .
23 For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe .
24 As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’
25 The reasons for this deficit are largely associated with the , the trend of pay and price increases outstripping our income , and outstripping our projections of what we would have to spend .
26 We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) .
27 The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully .
28 Because of what they would have done to us . ’
29 The preserved GMP can sometimes fall short of what you would have had from SERPS , and in these cases the state makes up the difference .
30 Were he alive today he would undoubtedly have bemoaned the fact that he was the frequent target of what he would have probably called ‘ scribblers ’ .
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