Example sentences of "would have [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 2 | Oh I , I think one had to consider erm , I , I 'd have to ask them the size of the room , what , what sort of a room it was , er , it was no use getting the fitting which erm was either far too big for the room in it 's , in it 's physical size |
| 3 | And you could have told the girl on switchboard to remind me — she 'd have given me the message , I assure you . ’ |
| 4 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 5 | If she 'd said Carolyn had borrowed a book from Clare and wanted to return it , they 'd have given her the address . |
| 6 | If that fool had known what it was , he 'd have given him the money ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Come to think of it I 'd have given you the oranges even if you 'd said no . ’ |
| 8 | I tell you , if I 'd have know what the content of the training was gon na be , I would 've arranged for our twelve crime prevention officers to go across there and listen to it , because there was a locksmith there that gave a lot of sound advice in relation to security of homes as well cars that really was good basic grounding for a crime prevention officer . |
| 9 | He 'd have got me the moon out of the sky if I 'd wanted it . ’ |
| 10 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 11 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have recognized you the moment I saw you , ’ Graham said . |
| 13 | If they 'd told the Blakeys a week ago the Blakeys would have said what the clergyman had said : that Stephen 's father could not have been responsible . |
| 14 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ That would appear to be the case because , other things being equal , we would have to give her the job back . ’ |
| 16 | That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters . |
| 17 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 18 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 19 | Even without the simple affirmation his face would have given her the answer ; he looked pale and drawn , as if he had slept even less than she had . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’ |
| 21 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
| 22 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 23 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 24 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 26 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
| 27 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 28 | The call would have given someone the chance to replace the spare set in the security cupboard here . |
| 29 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 30 | The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible . |