Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd have felt a lot happier . ’ |
2 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
3 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
4 | He mentioned the Environmental Law Foundation , specifically set up to assist citizens to protect their interests in securing a better environment — I would have thought a lot of people would have been interested in that . |
5 | If I was outside I would have got a lot better treatment . |
6 | In a larger building , like that in which I work , I would have to store a lot of instructions of the above kind in order to find my way about . |
7 | Under the same circumstances , she 'd have worked a lot harder to please a man , and she 'd lost sight of the fact that Kattina was an important lead in her assignment . |
8 | but it 's not that , you 'd have to have a lot of the fireplace ripped up . |
9 | You 'd have to eat a lot more . |
10 | When she was hurt she put herself out of reach ; Caro knew that by now , and she would have given a lot to undo the conversation . |
11 | she would have to get a lot more fed up and tired with this old , time-frozen body before suicide became a serious alternative . |
12 | So , that would be Freud 's defence , now , I suppose you would have to know a lot more about modern history , to , to know , if this was really true or not , but erm , the the er , question that Freud was really asking himself , really was , why did Wilson let us down , because Freud admits that he regarded Wilson , when he came to Europe as a saviour . |
13 | Erm but I do n't think we , if we 'd have done a lot more work you know , it 'd have been any better . |
14 | Where we 're taking measures from the image er such as height width etcetera we 'd have to know a lot about the image to take those measures . |
15 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
16 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
17 | The point is , darling , that in order to make sure Huerter has a future , we would have to put a lot of money in to restore a bombed-out balance sheet . |
18 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |
19 | They 'd have had a lot . |
20 | But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better . |
21 | He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental . |
22 | ‘ He would have spent a lot less time on the mountain if he had left a note in his car saying where he was going and when he was due to return . ’ |
23 | It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’ |
24 | It would have saved a lot of unnecessary antagonism . ’ |
25 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
26 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
27 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
28 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |
29 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |