Example sentences of "would have [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have felt so much better if this person had at least a year 's sentence . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 3 | You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out . |
| 4 | On December 21 last year , my daughter turned to me and said : ‘ Thank you , Mum , I do n't think I 'd have managed so well without you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 6 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 7 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 8 | He was encouraged by Garvey to polish it , but would have done so anyway : he had never before owned a mirror . |
| 9 | Otherwise I have no doubt you would have done so long ago and at some length . |
| 10 | Antonia said if Mr Mellor had intended resigning over their affair ‘ he would have done so long ago — or would have been forced to do so long ago ’ . |
| 11 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 12 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 13 | He said … ’ — the fräulein swallowed and continued in a rapid high-pitched voice — ‘ he had finished me once , in the Danube , and would have to do so again … ’ |
| 14 | Eventually , if Jean-Claude wished to go on living with death and the dead he would have to do so alone . |
| 15 | Dewi had wanted her to be independent , to fend for herself when he was no longer there to take care of her , but he could not have known that his death would have come so suddenly , striking him down in the prime of his manhood . |
| 16 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 17 | Not that it would have mattered so much : we could have gone on , wrangling over terms and leaving the outcome to chance , and there is , after all , quite a lot to be said for anticipation . |
| 18 | well I would have thought so anyway . |
| 19 | Well , you wo certainly would have thought so today I must admit but erm he er , no he , he in fact did a couple of good works when he was here . |
| 20 | ‘ I would have thought so too , but last night I spent a whole dinner sitting between two girls who talked about nothing but horses . |
| 21 | Without him , I do n't think I would have got so far in my career . |