Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't too impressed with this — I 'd rather have seen a film — but Andy thought it was all right , so I did too . |
| 2 | I expect when he was a little boy he 'd rather have had a Bible for his birthday than anything else in the world , even a bicycle . |
| 3 | I 'd rather have had a knife . |
| 4 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 5 | He 'd simply have acquired a spectator and a potential liability . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , I 'd never have breathed a syllable if he 'd kept quiet about the dog track . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , I examined the body myself ; I 'd never have missed a thing like that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd never have called a boy Apricot . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd never have associated a man like Tweed with such an atrocity . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work . |
| 12 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 13 | He would gladly have given a year 's salary just to know what exactly was the relationship between these two . |
| 14 | But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end . |
| 15 | But she would rather have had a handful of honest reviews . |
| 16 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 17 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |
| 18 | Her absence ( if it was regular and fairly lengthy ) would presumably have given a similar opportunity to her husband . |
| 19 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 20 | It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof . |
| 21 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 22 | At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference . |
| 23 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
| 24 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 25 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 26 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 27 | He would also like to see plea bargaining introduced , although he says he would not have accepted a reduced criminal plea . |
| 28 | ‘ A few moments later and he would not have stood a chance . ’ |
| 29 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 30 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |