Example sentences of "[pron] would have [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to wait until later for a proper look . |
| 2 | I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue . |
| 3 | I have a cringing suspicion that I would have waited until ten o'clock if necessary . |
| 4 | And I would have budgeted for that in my own business otherwise it would n't come . |
| 5 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 6 | Once I had started to work with the children , I did exactly what I would have done with older children — or adult learners . |
| 7 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 8 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 9 | Clare Shearer , looking rather too much like the Principal Boy of the pantomime , gave an attractive performance as Cherubino — not quite as breathless and impetuous as I would have liked from this juvenile Don Giovanni — but it is very difficult to get used to hearing the immortal Non so piu cosa son sung in translation . |
| 10 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
| 11 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 12 | My plan assumed that I would have to work for these by actively seeking ideas . |
| 13 | to forty or lower , I would have thought for this sort of plan , the majority . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have thought with 50,000 men training already under General Richardson to fight for Northern Ireland there was a place for a fine young Ulsterman like you . ’ |
| 15 | I mean they are certainly the two most important things in my life , and I would have thought in most people 's — both work and good relationships with a family . |
| 16 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 17 | I would have sworn at that time that I loved her as much as she did me , more even , but subsequent events proved me wrong . |
| 18 | I knew that eventually I would have to walk into that screaming cloud . |
| 19 | Just — different , because you 'd be tied up elsewhere , and I would have to look for other friends . |
| 20 | In that case , I would have paid for all the drinks , would n't I ? |
| 21 | But if I felt it might be time for a change I would have to think about that as well . ’ |
| 22 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 23 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 24 | Well it 'll be one-to-one , but I would have looked at that as many-to- one , because , one child has come from more than one parent . |
| 25 | ‘ I would have settled for that before I went out . |
| 26 | Downes himself would have to deal with that . |
| 27 | Societies have an extraordinary capacity either to consider objects as having attributes which may not appear as evident to outsiders , or else altogether to ignore attributes which would have appeared to those same outsiders as being inextricably part of that object . |
| 28 | Councillors , conservation groups and the public joined forces to condemn the transfer , which would have involved between 65 and 70 articulated lorry movements for ten hours a day in each direction , six days a week . |
| 29 | While this language might not have been chosen under Kennedy , the advisers of the new president , Lyndon Johnson , went on to cite specific grievances against Britain which would have arisen under any president . |
| 30 | The legislation , which would have applied to some 50 per cent of US employees , had been passed by the House on May 10 and by the Senate on June 14 . |