Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Privily he would have liked to enjoy the fun but his heart was already labouring against the cold . |
| 8 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 9 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Many others , however , ( and it 's believed this group included Orkney Islands Council ) would have liked to see the family leave South Ronaldsay altogether . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mrs Cameron said yesterday that she would have liked to see the university medical school represented on the board . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is one of those who would have liked to sign the amendment . |
| 16 | Tolkien would have liked to hear the horns of Rohan blow , and watch the Black Breath of inertia dissolve from his own country . |
| 17 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 18 | They are either finite that clauses ( although the conjunction that may be omitted : " He had known [ that ] the poor child was not robust " ( ii ) ) ; or else infinitive clauses ( " He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) ) . |
| 19 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 20 | The missive was handed to the Professor , who hesitated to send it on ; he would have liked to pay the bill , but it was not certain what other extravagances the young woman would incur . |
| 21 | No doubt there had long been extreme Gregorians who would have liked to abolish the homage of ecclesiastical landholders for ecclesiastical lands . |
| 22 | Doctor Lovell , who knew both women slightly , suspected that she was brow-beaten by the dominating Ella and would have liked to try the effects of an iron tonic on Dimity 's languid pallor . |
| 23 | Even those in the Britain of the 1980s who would have liked to privatise the last municipal loo were n't too bothered about the Hops Marketing Board . |
| 24 | Most of all Trent would have liked to know the power structure and the brains behind Louis . |
| 25 | Two hours would have sufficed to embark the men in Cherbourg Harbour , after a previous rehearsal . |
| 26 | ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games . |
| 27 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 28 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 29 | She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen . |
| 30 | Over supper on 20 January 1689 ( English style ) , Louis persuaded James , who would have preferred to begin the recovery of his lost throne via Scotland , to respond to Tyrconnel 's plea , offering a handsome contribution in money and arms plus five experienced officers to help train the raw Irish troops and a diplomatic adviser , formerly French envoy at the Hague . |