Example sentences of "would have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | If there had been a loose lamp-post in sight I probably would have grabbed that . |
2 | If it were consistent the government would have to view these variations too as evidence of inefficiency . |
3 | But the American economy depended a great deal on mass consumption — and higher wages would have enabled that consumption to continue to increase . |
4 | That would have enabled any controversial remark to be edited . |
5 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
6 | The simplest inquiry by the hon. Gentleman would have ascertained that fact . |
7 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
8 | Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye . |
9 | As Arsenal manager and given the importance of this player to the team , I would have accepted that . |
10 | John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor 's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead . |
11 | Well , Dominic would have played more but he could n't get in the blooming team ! |
12 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
13 | What might be called a conservative legal-constitutionalism is a consistent theme within Tory-Anglican thought throughout our period , even though not all Tory Anglicans would have argued such a position at all times with the same degree of commitment . |
14 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
15 | David McCathie fought back from 22–12 down at 17 ends and almost pulled off a five on the last which would have secured another point for Essex but Paul Maynard continued his winning momentum to ensure the overall venue win . |
16 | Failing that , it would have to wait another twelve months . |
17 | One wonders how he would have versified this set up . |
18 | Anti-pollution equipment would be based at strategic locations around the world ; mutual assistance was promised to cope with an accident ; masters of vessels would have to report all major pollutant leakages ; and ship owners would have to meet clean-up costs . |
19 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
20 | The effect of failure to resolve a factual problem will vary with the circumstances , but their Lordships need not decide how in this case they would have viewed such failure , seen in isolation . |
21 | As I have just indicated , the anthropologists of Tylor 's generation would have viewed such a suggestion with contempt . |
22 | In his travels throughout the galaxy doubtless Googol would have heard many rumours , despite best official efforts to suppress scaremongering talk . |
23 | ‘ No , I would have heard that . ’ |
24 | Do you think the the occupants of the bed would have heard that ? |
25 | John would have heard enough of you on the phone to be convinced that it was a erm right for you to have a chat with , could |
26 | So I would have heard enough on the phone er because I have n't got my original notes here , I would have heard enough on the phone er Robert to have suggested that it was a good idea to get face to face . |
27 | So I would have heard enough on the phone er because I have n't got my original notes here , I would have heard enough on the phone er Robert to have suggested that it was a good idea to get face to face . |
28 | In order to determine the probabilities of such singular histories , one would have to invoke some principle other than the known laws of science . |
29 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
30 | He is — was — an extremely competent forensic biologist , but I doubt whether he would have gone any higher . |