Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every three months or so I 'd clear it of all the wonder remedies he 'd accumulated , but within a week he 'd have discovered some other miracle medicine . |
| 2 | I 'd have found some boring ordinary job and paid off the cops and you 'd have your new crystal and I 'd never have met Marco and his pals and I 'd be a happier woman today . |
| 3 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 4 | I wished I 'd have bought some more now |
| 5 | I 'd have got some this morning |
| 6 | I would have liked some manual override on exposure settings , though the fill-in flash is some compensation . |
| 7 | He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate . |
| 8 | The scholastics would have recognized some such distinction . |
| 9 | Whereas the tax relief would have affected some 78,000,000 families , the proposed increases would have applied to only around 1,000,000 couples and individuals . |
| 10 | The Nikkei average index , the main measure of performance in Tokyo , fell by 40 per cent during the year , or approximately US$1,500,000 million , and it was estimated that even dollar-denominated investments there would have lost some 35.4 per cent of their value . |
| 11 | Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 13 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |
| 14 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 15 | That would have meant some twelve hundred acres freed for building , a catastrophic thought . |
| 16 | He subsequently set off to explore the county on foot as far as Lands End and his notes show that his book , had it been written , would have contained some far-fetched fantasies — as well as straight inaccuracies . |
| 17 | He was a lovely horse , and would have won some good races next year . ’ |
| 18 | There are no votes in plans to pension off the Queen , and the House of Windsor has achieved a stability which would have surprised some previous royal households . |
| 19 | Now if we 'd have the voice of the Funny Man guessed we would have had some postal contestant winners , but they now go back in the box with those yet to come in the next week . |
| 20 | On mobilization , the first-line army for an offensive operation would have numbered some 761,000 men , with a second line of about 1 million . |
| 21 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |