Example sentences of "[pron] would [not/n't] have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't have said handstands . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't have said mouse , precisely . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 4 | His present salary was probably at least double that of mine already , but I would n't have swopped jobs with him anyway . |
| 5 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 6 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 7 | I would n't have taken Mike Teague . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't have expected claims to become due before 2005 or 2010 , so the payment has been accelerated . ’ |
| 9 | Then , forcing herself , she put the thought into words : If I 'd known , I would n't have used magic . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe I would n't have allowed Marissa to cause me so much unhappiness . |
| 11 | I would nt have minded Atkinson , but last night brought home just how much he has lost it . |
| 12 | Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master . |
| 13 | Yet if she had n't agreed to carry out those imperious commands she would n't have met Silas — and she knew she was very happy to have met Silas . |
| 14 | If she had not met the man at that particular moment , she would not have gone out to the highway and she would not have met Flynn . |
| 15 | Even if she had heard the locomotive 's whistle as it entered the tunnel , she would not have had time to run to the bridge in time to meet Mr Cross as he parked his car in the goods yard . |
| 16 | who would not have shown weight on a scale |
| 17 | and I 'm saying you 're alright , she 'd have left buggy at your house anyway cos you were walking , you would n't have had buggy with you then so you 'd got ta come back this way had n't you ? |
| 18 | The , the d doors were in the water right low , they were , they were low say you would n't have had say about three foot of water in the hold . |
| 19 | It is submitted that there was no need to make a different order from an interim care order in order to achieve that end , because the stated intention of the local authority was to maintain the relationship between the mother and the children , as has been evidenced by what has happened since , and that the interim care order in itself would not have affected bonding , indeed the whole of the exercise was to maintain the bonding of the children with the mother . |
| 20 | Cos we would n't have wanted grandma to miss her train would we ? |
| 21 | Without him , we would n't have won promotion when we did , and he was the last player I wanted to lose . |
| 22 | We would n't have had Symphonies eight and ten . |
| 23 | We would not have had World Cup races this season in Australia and the USA , or any at all in Europe . |
| 24 | The first criterion can be satisfied , of course , without its also being true that even if x ( any other event or condition or set of them ) had also occurred , then if we had not got cc we would not have got e . |
| 25 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 26 | If the negotiators of the Treaty had truly intended intergovernmental cooperation to be means by which the Community would develop into a Union , they would not have involved EEC institutions directly in this process . |
| 27 | They would not have allowed people to pluck them up , take them prisoner , tie a noose round their necks and kill them . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not think identity cards would have changed things — I suspect they would not have deterred people from travelling without tickets . ’ |
| 29 | They would not have told Alexei everything , of course . |
| 30 | Remarking that he would not have forgiven Boswell had he not brought Johnson to Monboddo , he showed the travellers a stalk of corn , his laetas segetes , his abundant crop , and remarked that Virgil , to judge from his writings , seemed an equally practical and enthusiastic farmer . |