Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] much " in BNC.
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1 | Now , that in a sense , would have fitted much much better into the Playhouse , and had we been open at that stage , there 's a jolly good chance that that show would have actually come to us rather than going there . |
2 | He would have said much more , but Brown Owl , who had crawled under the fence , hurried to them and put her arms round poor , scared Mandy . |
3 | For if species identification was the function of the stripes they would have diverged much more in the three cases . |
4 | In the face of a scheme which would have lost much of the old hospital , a local group determined to fight to save all the buildings and contacted SAVE for advice . |
5 | The chivalrous impulses of Hi Ridden and Sard Harker are natural and human as well as idealistic : if they had not been , the novels would have lost much of their vigour and point . |
6 | If those threads were slack , they would have absorbed much of the energy of the returning hammer . |
7 | The lass is right , she thought — in her place , I would have given much the same answer . |
8 | I would have given much to meet him at Elsfield during one of his fleeting visits : indeed there was no one I would have been more interested to meet . |
9 | The inclusion of a Tallmantz B–25 cameraship would have done much for both the dogfights and the other air-to-air formation shots . |
10 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
11 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
12 | ‘ I do n't think that would have done much good , ’ she said . |
13 | That 's amazing that you went on holiday alone because surely you would have done much |
14 | In Jarrow , Stockton-on-Tees and other industrial towns it seems unlikely that the prospect of acquiring wealth and property would have exerted much influence upon working-class families struggling for survival . |
15 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
16 | It 's just that you would have raised much more if you 'd sold the pair . |
17 | If Mitzi had been sitting on the lilac branch with the squirrel yesterday ( and at this point her thoughts brought a smile to Elisabeth 's face ) , she would have overheard much to have kept her mind and tongue engaged . … |
18 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
19 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
20 | Rodrigo was born near here at Bivar in 1043 and would have spent much of his childhood in sight of these rugged hills . |
21 | I hoped the white men were n't telling him to eliminate all witnesses because I do n't believe it would have needed much persuasion . |
22 | These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits . |
23 | The existence of silica suggests that ammonia was not an important gas , as it would have left much more limestone and dolomites . |
24 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |
25 | Peters would have had much else to tell Eliot . |
26 | Dancer would have had much more fun . |
27 | It is a conclusion about an almost psychiatric effect ( and comfort ) offered by serious drama which Aristotle would have had much sympathy with . |
28 | But she did n't see that she would have had much choice . |
29 | One was the failure of the self- regulatory body I M R O and the second one was really the fact that he was able to change his financial year end from April ninety-one to December ninety-one and during that period he was able to do things with those erm those funds in his accounts and er and really there was , there was no check on that , and I do n't see that the that was in er Good would have changed much of that situation at that end . |
30 | I ca n't believe he would have taken much of its meaning . |