Example sentences of "would have [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that would not be what one would expect er two months ago if I 'd said well look you know that 's that 's what the revolution 's gon na bring about you would 've said I do n't believe you . |
| 2 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 3 | Which would 've enabled me to rush , up there , but I did n't . |
| 4 | If I wore those track braces I would 've had I would n't have been able to clean my teeth properly |
| 5 | ‘ There 's plenty of folk that would 've taken me . |
| 6 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
| 7 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 8 | Given its urgency , I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman did not write to me about such a detailed case , which would have enabled me to deal with it earlier . |
| 9 | He leaves he leaves all I thought Kath would have phoned me because I wrote her a letter and normally when I write her a letter she sort of , phones about the next day but she |
| 10 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 11 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 13 | But once again John would have heard I hope something different on the phone . |
| 14 | If I had screamed or tried to escape he would have battered me to death . |
| 15 | When I was unable to finish the heaped plateful , the waitress expressed concern that I had not enjoyed one of their local specialties ; two , I felt , would have killed me . |
| 16 | I had to do it in self-defence , or else he would have killed me . |
| 17 | And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away . |
| 18 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
| 19 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 20 | I did n't want my parents to know I had a boyfriend : they would not have approved because they would have felt I was too young . |
| 21 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman had wanted a detailed comment on it , he would have invited me to look at it before he asked his question . |
| 23 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 24 | ‘ I only hope I did everything Sally would have wanted me to do . |
| 25 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm sure your father would have wanted me to tell you . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not sure he would have wanted me to have anything else . |
| 28 | My sister , who has always been better off than us , has suggested that I should go abroad with her this year , and says I have no excuse because I have the money and that is what our mother would have wanted me to do with it . |
| 29 | The Russians on the other hand would have stripped me naked , even if the temperature was far below zero , and then would have sliced every article of my clothes , even down to my shoes , into tiny pieces . |
| 30 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |