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 .
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