Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] would [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
| 2 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 3 | Of course I would have contacted you . |
| 4 | I must insist we get back to the boundaries , I 've repeatedly had to do so this afternoon I would have thought it that the message would have got over to me honourable members before now . |
| 5 | ‘ If you were n't Eddie 's kid sister I 'd have given you a far harder ride for what you 've just accused me of this evening , so do n't push your luck , Dr Kate Ash , because you might come to regret it ! ’ |
| 6 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 7 | If he had n't been covered with blood I would have recognized him . |
| 8 | If you had waited for me to return and confronted me with your distress I would have told you . |
| 9 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 10 | Being an outsider she would have got it anyway , but this precipitated matters . |
| 11 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 12 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 13 | If I 'd have said , By the way at the end of this I have to take your photograph it would 've put you off . |
| 14 | If the crime had been other than murder he would have left it to his Scientific Officer assistant , not yet returned from a belated lunch . |
| 15 | This is necessary as a result of property writedown which would have left it in breach of its £350 million net worth banking covenant . |
| 16 | For a long time , Emerson simply failed to sign the contracts which would have kept him in front-rank racing . |
| 17 | ‘ If however , you land a blow which would have caused them serious injury and limited them in the fight , then you get a half point . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When you got to the edge of the universe , you were supposed to have turned round and retraced your route which would have brought you back here in the opposite direction to the arrow . ’ |
| 19 | It was a strong probability that the Guardian still retained in their archives a numbered copy of the minutes which would have told us immediately to whom that copy had been issued and therefore the name of the informant . |
| 20 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If I had n't known he was wearing shoes I 'd have sworn he had clogs on , ’ Maggie said . |
| 22 | In your shoes I 'd have expected him to come prepared with a big stick . ’ |
| 23 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 24 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 25 | He was flown out from Dublin airport to Manchester after waiving the rights he possessed under Irish law which would have allowed him to stage a marathon legal battle to stay in the Republic . |
| 26 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 27 | Spells and love potions — not that Cormac ever needed them of course , because there was n't a woman in Ireland who 'd have resisted him . |
| 28 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |
| 29 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 30 | Will he elaborate and tell us in what circumstances we would have used them ? |