Example sentences of "i would have [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any other time I 'd have laughed at this innocent self-betrayal ; just now it did n't seem funny , only irritating . |
| 2 | Yes er we 've five games now and er although we have n't won as as many as I would 've liked at least erm we 've stayed unbeaten . |
| 3 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 4 | I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue . |
| 5 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 6 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 7 | It was a poor excuse … but I would have jumped at anything by that time . |
| 8 | If he had come begging and pleading , I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth . |
| 9 | ‘ If anyone had told me when we were getting ready to meet Dublin — more in hope than confidence , it must be admitted — that in the early Nineties two Ulster teams would win the All Ireland and another would be in the final I would have laughed at them , ’ says Jimmy . |
| 10 | I got an education there that was as good as , if not better than , that I would have had at Westminster . |
| 11 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 12 | I would have sworn at that time that I loved her as much as she did me , more even , but subsequent events proved me wrong . |
| 13 | All you had to do was telephone me , and I would have come at once to look after Kirsty . ’ |
| 14 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 15 | Well it 'll be one-to-one , but I would have looked at that as many-to- one , because , one child has come from more than one parent . |
| 16 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |
| 17 | Erm , so I was constantly getting rises , less my service pay and erm it got to a state there where sometimes my service pay was more than what the erm salary I would have got at home was and my wife had to pay to keep my superannuation live . |
| 18 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |