Example sentences of "would have [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er er well we could n't carry it out , cos the the ones who were n't prepared to do the picket was n't erm going to do it , we 'd have to do more of 'em to keep these youngsters on doing the picket , you know . |
| 2 | I reckon he 'd have scored more goals then than he has now . |
| 3 | Do n't you see , if I 'd known what she was really planning , I 'd have asked more questions ? |
| 4 | You 'd have thought he 'd have had more sense . ’ |
| 5 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 6 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 7 | I mean obviously I 'd have to pay more er for if I want it to end at sixty . |
| 8 | I wish I 'd have bought more of them . |
| 9 | That 's two you 'd have to have more of that . |
| 10 | Well , Dominic would have played more but he could n't get in the blooming team ! |
| 11 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 12 | Surely , in a different generation , John Jackson would have gained more honours than his single appearance for the Football League . |
| 13 | Frank played left midfielder/winger in a 4–5-1 formation ( with Jostein Flo from Sheff.Utd. at the right flank and debutant Geir Frigard from Kongsvinger , Norway , as the striker ) and did well , even though ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen would have wanted more movement off the ball from him . |
| 14 | Here and there I would have liked more intensity in nostalgic song ( not least from the lyrical cello ) and more devil-may-care abandon in the livelier dance episodes . |
| 15 | Probably many urban employers in the new forms of manufacture would have liked more of their workers to have become self-disciplined Methodists , but it was the employers of the village-dwelling miners who could already appreciate the benefits by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Contractors would have to employ more people . |
| 17 | I would have chucked more than that off , loads of it ! |
| 18 | If so , it will come to the negotiating table severely handicapped by its past history of deference : it could as easily have confronted the issue four years ago , when it would have stood more of a chance of winning . |
| 19 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 20 | If we did not find it , we would have to lay more water pipes . |
| 21 | But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took . |
| 22 | Whilst Britain was genuinely concerned about honouring its debts there was a high mindedness about it which shut out any consideration of alternatives which , by reducing the obligation to maintain the value of sterling , would have given more scope for domestic planning . |
| 23 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 24 | A butterfly would have exerted more pressure alighting on a flower petal . |
| 25 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 26 | By re-analysing a few examples of French social survey data it is hoped that the British statisticians will become more familiar with French methods and also learn whether British methods would have revealed more or less details , or whether the two types of statistical methods are complementary . |
| 27 | She said another member of the family would have been able to help after the theft but it would have caused more inconvenience . |
| 28 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ Old Keithie would have made more of it , but this 'll do . |
| 30 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |