Example sentences of "would [verb] have [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’ |
2 | Yes and you 'd 've had to have cancelled anyway would n't you ? |
3 | I 'd like to have seen that . |
4 | Would those in favour of the amendment I 'm very sorry but er it 's not an automatic right , sorry , I 'd like to have called him but er we 've summed up , what do we do now ? |
5 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |
6 | I 'd like to have married Carole Lombard . |
7 | I 'd like to have bust ‘ im on one last rap before I finished , too . ’ |
8 | I 'd hate to have kept you waiting a whole twenty minutes for nothing . ’ |
9 | If I had n't let her in she 'd have had to sit on her suitcase in the hall for three hours . ’ |
10 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
11 | And he 'd have had to hold back on some of the madder racist stuff in.public . |
12 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |
13 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
14 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
15 | Er , if you slept in there you 'd have had to lay there with umbrella up ! |
16 | If our people had asked her , she 'd have had to answer . |
17 | She 'd have had to say it was twins , if it had been , would n't she ? |
18 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
19 | Then I 'd have had to chase after you wherever you went . |
20 | If I had n't put that frock on the lady — she 's my girlfriend by the way — I 'd have had to give her blue nipples . |
21 | But then , if IRS had wanted to be scrupulously honest , they 'd have had to call the compilation ‘ A Cynical Attempt To Cash In On R.E.M . 's Current Popularity By Fobbing Off Yet Another Collection of Old Songs As Some Kind Of Definitive Statement ’ . |
22 | They 'd have had to wait until she was in Spain before showing their hand . |
23 | ‘ I wish I was , then he 'd have had to marry me . |
24 | But myself , I 'd have had to send my daughter to school on m more than one occasion with a tatty uniform . |
25 | Said yo you 'd have had to send . |
26 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
27 | " He 'd have had to have opened the door and then left it open when he reset the alarms . |
28 | ‘ He 'd have had to have taken it during the meal or shortly after . |
29 | To be forty she 'd have had to have been born in the nineteen seventies |
30 | ‘ If he did he 'd have had to park at the back of St Manicus house since they 've banned parking in the precinct now . |