Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have applied to RADA only he could n't remember what you called it . |
| 2 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 3 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 4 | I thought you 'd have gone to bed . ’ |
| 5 | I think , if I had n't been there , she 'd have gone to sleep right away . |
| 6 | I 'd have gone against Maria Luisa and broken my vow of silence to put you out of your misery . |
| 7 | But you see , if I 'd have gone in Wilkinsons I could have bought another this morning . |
| 8 | I 'd have ended in zee guttair as a clapped out lush |
| 9 | Erm if he 'd have stayed at Southwold Hospital he would have died ! |
| 10 | If I 'd have stayed in France there would have been no pension . ’ |
| 11 | They were bound to have things in common , even if the difference in age made it unlikely that they 'd have overlapped at university . |
| 12 | ‘ But if you had n't come , I 'd have died of loneliness . ’ |
| 13 | If , if they 'd have if they 'd have talked to Andrew first , Andrew would have told him why we 'd sent it . |
| 14 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 15 | Assuming Bob had lived , and stayed with Island , doubtless he 'd have worked with Courtney Pine 's sax anyway . |
| 16 | I 'd have taken in lodgers only for the war , but the solicitor advised me just to close the place up for the time being . |
| 17 | At one time she 'd have sworn with hand on heart that Dane had absolutely no effect on her knees whatsoever . |
| 18 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 19 | Because we 'd have got from Spiro 's |
| 20 | If you had been , you 'd have learned about roads . |
| 21 | This was so unexpected … the very last thing she 'd have expected from Guy Sterne … |
| 22 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 23 | Doubting whether the traffic jam would have cleared by Wednesday , I finally arrived in time to miss my dental appointment and searched my mind for something pleasant to think of as I rejoined the traffic and inched my way back to the cottage . |
| 24 | For example , the minority view would have prevailed in Donoghue v. Stevenson [ 1932 ] A.C. 562 ; our modern law of judicial review would have never developed from its old , ineffectual , origins ; and Mareva injunctions would never have seen the light of day . |
| 25 | He would have warmed to Eileen had he lived long enough to get to know her . |
| 26 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 27 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 28 | With today 's level of careers advice , a young man like Bill Larnach almost certainly would have applied to Cambridge . |
| 29 | Most believe he would have played for Wales but for a serious knee injury in 1975 which put him out of rugby for two years . |
| 30 | Hampson is now serving a suspension , which means a recall for Alan Tait , who would have played at Elland Road but for injury . |