Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I would have had different children . |
2 | A little longer and I would have had some difficulty . ’ |
3 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
4 | I do n't really think at that time I would have had enough experience to justify going on the staff . |
5 | But she did n't see that she would have had much choice . |
6 | ‘ She would have had regular checks , and any shots . |
7 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
8 | Ellie did n't think she would have had that sort of courage . |
9 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
10 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |
11 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |
12 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |
13 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
14 | This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added . |
15 | If this had not been the case , we would have had serious reservations about participation . |
16 | If alternative pathways of health care provision were used extensively we would have had serious underascertainment . |
17 | ‘ Two bullets from a gun fired in Amsterdam ; Ray Doyle dying ; and we would have had Menni Latowa , which would have stopped all this , if we had n't decided to bring him in too late . ’ |
18 | But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons . |
19 | They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God . |
20 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
21 | The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt . |
22 | They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s . |
23 | Some books are encountered too late , after the period when they would have had maximum impact . |
24 | Executions are easily exaggerated , but the Encomiast 's statement that many English leaders were killed with Eadric , and that of the later Evesham chronicle that many of his soldiers died too , are quite plausible , given that he would have had powerful henchmen whom it was doubtless politic to eliminate . |
25 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
26 | Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle . |
27 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
28 | The King 's desire to join the Queen is a mystery , for , ’ he added bitterly , ‘ he would have had little joy out of her . ’ |
29 | he would have had fucking pen there would have been no working for them ! |
30 | Just as well someone had rung Catherine half an hour ago , or they 'd both still have been asleep , and he would have had difficult questions to answer in the morning about why he had been , uncharacteristically , out of touch with everyone since leaving Yeo Davis at six . |