Example sentences of "would have [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He expresses scepticism about Frankfurt 's boast of being able to fill their stadium for every session : ‘ I do n't think they will get 9,000 every day , but I would have achieved that here , where we have developed an audience for the game .
2 Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's .
3 Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty .
4 But if we extend the above argument , drawn from the motivation of ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Party to the wider electorate , we would have to conclude that here — probably to an even greater extent — Hitler 's image was not dominated by his obsession with the ‘ Jewish Question ’ .
5 One would have assumed that as two classicists , Punch contributors and men of letters of an old-fashioned Christian temper , Lewis and Knox would have known each other for years .
6 Thorpe J. having held that ‘ there is no doubt at all that J. is a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , ’ I shall assume that , so far as the common law is concerned , Lord Scarman would have decided that neither the local authority nor W. 's aunt , both of whom had parental responsibilities , could give consent to treatment which would be effective in the face of W. 's refusal of consent .
7 Taking the official figure of twenty thousand TV sets , this would have meant that only eight sets belonged to Zambians !
8 I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature .
9 Who would have thought that even at the beginning of this century the poet felt the need for time to stand still .
10 There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a
11 We would have said we would have thought that too sir but er it appears that er
12 I would have found that too painful , I would have had to sacrifice them too much ’ .
13 As we have already said , a creation myth which was symbolically true would have to convey that neither woman nor man was present before the other ; moreover , not that they were created out of dust but that they were integrally related to the rest of the animal creation .
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