Example sentences of "[pron] would have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 2 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 4 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if tomorrow I confirm a speculative theory implying that the gravitational attraction between two bodies depends on their temperature , falsifying Newton 's theory in the process , I would have made a significant contribution to scientific knowledge . |
| 8 | Oh I 'm not bothered about things like that , but I would have liked a decent size garden . |
| 9 | Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement . |
| 10 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 11 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 12 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 13 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 14 | At the beginning of the season I would have had an each-way bet each on Llanelli and Neath to win the title , but you all know what has happened to Neath . |
| 15 | ‘ I would have thought a whacking great palace more to your taste ! ’ |
| 16 | Now , if that had been a finance company , I would have paid a damn sight more . |
| 17 | Ordinarily , I would have chosen an empty table . |
| 18 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 19 | I would have added a further recommendation to the Clapham conclusions : that British Rail should forthwith desist from any further advertising expenditure and re-route the money to the improvement of safety and engineering standards . |
| 20 | ‘ I was glad she accepted because otherwise I would have looked a right banana in front of all those tourists . ’ |
| 21 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 22 | It is also possible to express condition through subject-verb inversion in rather more formal or literary style : Had I had enough money I would have bought a new car . |
| 23 | A prompt reply I would have deemed a common decency , you being a fellow screenplay writer , though I must say I have never cared for your work , finding it , at once , both florid and superficial . |
| 24 | At that instant , I would have fought a wild beast in order to preserve her unharmed . |
| 25 | Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life ! |
| 26 | It is highly likely that there was no possible adjustment to the gold price in the 1960s which would have ensured an adequate flow of gold into the reserves of the USA and other countries . |
| 27 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 28 | According to the owner 's agent , Robert Holden , the owners offered to give the house and land in exchange for £1.8 for the contents , which would have formed an enhanced tax douceur . |
| 29 | After discreet soundings , they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence . |
| 30 | In Kettering , Northamptonshire , new operating theatres which would have cost an extra £250,000 a year to open will stand unused until at least next April . |