Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The papers are his business — not that he 'd have wanted to start a fire . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd have gone to take a look from beneath . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah 'd have liked to take a look around the Archaeological Museum , but Ah fear we 'd never make it in time through the rush-hour traffic . |
| 4 | If there 'd been room , I 'd have liked to print a ring of 18 mutants around the central tree . |
| 5 | We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version . |
| 6 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 7 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 8 | But then , if IRS had wanted to be scrupulously honest , they 'd have had to call the compilation ‘ A Cynical Attempt To Cash In On R.E.M . 's Current Popularity By Fobbing Off Yet Another Collection of Old Songs As Some Kind Of Definitive Statement ’ . |
| 9 | You 'd have had to work a lot harder if I had n't been around to help with those locks and cook your food , brew endless cups of coffee . |
| 10 | If I 'd have refused to rejoin the army they 'd have stopped my pension , and that 's the only income we have . |
| 11 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 12 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 13 | He poured wine and brought it across the room to Owen 's chair , pressing him back brusquely when he would have risen to receive the cup . |
| 14 | Further and/or alternatively , the judge said that under the provisions of article 13 of the Convention he considered that there was a grave risk that the return of the child would place him in an intolerable situation , and said that on that ground also he would have declined to order the return of the child . |
| 15 | If Michael Heseltine had won the leadership in November 1990 , he would have wanted to call an immediate general election . |
| 16 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 17 | Steven Spielberg 's dinosaurs are frightening enough … but none of the experts would have wanted to encounter a real-life sea dragon . |
| 18 | ‘ If I had done all six , my new film would have got in the way and I never would have wanted to hold the Darling Buds cast up . |
| 19 | Privily he would have liked to enjoy the fun but his heart was already labouring against the cold . |
| 20 | She would have liked to take a look at the city 's cathedral square on which Castrum Babenberg , the castle of Bamberg , had once stood . |
| 21 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 22 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 23 | I would have liked to see a slightly higher register developed , moving more towards a normative academic usage and away from the predominantly plain-language lexis which characterises the work . |
| 24 | I would have liked to see the bungalow demolished on TV so that people who violate the laws will know in future what can happen . ’ |
| 25 | Many others , however , ( and it 's believed this group included Orkney Islands Council ) would have liked to see the family leave South Ronaldsay altogether . |
| 26 | At a celebration dinner last night to mark the achievements of the century-long partnership between Essex County Council and Essex colleges , LEA chairman Ian Abbey toasted the future.He would have liked to see the LEA retain a greater input in further education , he said , but he wished the colleges to go forward in a spirit of goodwill . |
| 27 | Mrs Cameron said yesterday that she would have liked to see the university medical school represented on the board . |
| 28 | This was strong language , and must have swayed many who would have liked to uphold the religious tradition of burying the body whole to await resurrection . |
| 29 | He would have liked to exchange a few words with Cedric Downes at Oxford — surely a man suffering from the same kind of trouble ? |
| 30 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is one of those who would have liked to sign the amendment . |