Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 2 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 3 | Well I would n't have thought she 'd have gone in a shop like that anyway cos there 's some more expensive stuff in there . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 5 | ‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor : |
| 6 | If we 'd have put in a price based on A C scaled fees , we would have overspent by a hundred and fifty five percent . |
| 7 | If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again . |
| 8 | Once again , you know , you 'd have thought in a green field construction site that you would n't get access problems and in er , a restricted area like a city centre building or er , a you would get access problems . |
| 9 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 10 | If you 'd known me when I was 12 or 14 , there was no way I 'd have got near a stage . |
| 11 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 12 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 13 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 15 | Oh God , I would 've crawled into a hole for the rest of my life . |
| 16 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 17 | PAMELA : I thought , sir , you would have distinguished between a command where my conscience was concerned an a common point . |
| 18 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 19 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 20 | Investment in housing , transport , education and social services would have risen with a Labour victory . |
| 21 | Schemes such as the furniture stores would have operated at a much more modest level whereas now they are the main providers of this service in the city . |
| 22 | Rose would call teasingly but he would have gone with a slam of the door . |
| 23 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 25 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins . |
| 26 | Anyone would have felt at a disadvantage in such a situation . |
| 27 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 28 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 29 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 30 | But he could not have guessed that , almost fifty years later , Eliot would be loaded with honours and with happiness while he himself would have retreated into a silence of guilt and despair . |