Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I 'd 've got further and further and there 's no way he was going to tell me I 'm wrong . |
| 2 | But in a short while , once he was gone from the house , she 'd have to go upstairs and read to her daughter and she knew that already the child was sensitive to her feelings : she would say , ‘ You sad , Mammy ? ’ or ‘ You vexed with me , Mammy ? ’ |
| 3 | Because if I 'd have come home and it 'd been a mess I would have had a face the longest of all ! |
| 4 | Gossip they would have heard fast and in copious quantities , but a more systematic set of information they did not possess . |
| 5 | Generally the more expensive books would have gone already and only occasionally did I have to spend more than £5 , often far less . |
| 6 | Erm , and I would have gone home and said I 'm sorry darling , a major client ca n't afford to pay these people , and so on and so forth . |
| 7 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 8 | ‘ The merger provides the potential for developing more business than we would have achieved separately and I am confident that we have the basis for a successful future . |
| 9 | If I had believed what they said about me , I would have crawled away and given up . |
| 10 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 11 | ‘ I would have stood there and watched myself bleed to death . |
| 12 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 13 | The Greens had planned to hold their 1989 rally in the Sorbonne , but at the last minute they were told they would have to go elsewhere and the only venue available at short notice was the Cité . |
| 14 | Well , she would have to go home and get her dad to run her to the rave . |
| 15 | As far as these cats were concerned , I have little doubt that nothing but positive r reinforcement would have been given because if they had been punished they simply would n't have done it , and they would have run away and it 's very much more difficult as a as a performer to have an animal w is n't going to want to do the act . |
| 16 | However , the position is not as simple as this because , if the merger had taken place , rationalisation and restructuring would have happened anyway and it is likely that certain plants in any combined GM/Leyland group would have closed . |
| 17 | Why you would have to travel abroad and choose leather and see that those in your employ did not cheat you , you are too sweet and beautiful to survive in such a harsh world . ’ |
| 18 | Had it been , Bingham says , ‘ it seems likely that all concerned would have embarked on a group restructuring programme with a much fuller investigation and understanding of the malpractice which had existed in the past and of the level of support required , or that the bank would have been closed or would have collapsed there and then ’ . |
| 19 | Betty would have spoken well and warmly of Beuno , and Finn was clearly jealous . |
| 20 | If Claudine was incensed then she would have rung earlier and said so . |
| 21 | Normally , I would have returned indoors and gone meekly to bed . |
| 22 | The Corporal or Sergeant leading would stop us , we would have to start again and try to sing the whole song faultlessly . |
| 23 | Firstly , we only know of the existence of these structures because of the waterlogged nature of the peat in which they are found , since without such conditions they would have rotted away and disappeared . |
| 24 | Had she been , she informed me , she would have protested there and then . |
| 25 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 26 | A general election last Thursday would have settled once and for all the political policies that the country will follow for the next few years . |
| 27 | Urges to punish those who repudiated the woman without whom they would have got nowhere and been nobody have surged in my breast . |
| 28 | ‘ I am pretty sure the team would have got together and sung the anthem anyway . ’ |