Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking alone I would never have made it . |
| 2 | I thought that perhaps I would sooner have swum in the pool with the crocodiles than draw to myself the hostile attention of that girl . |
| 3 | So you would maybe have opened fire directly on that ship ? |
| 4 | So they would immediately have turned to the second , legislative stage : they would have tried to discover which decision was more sensible or just or democratic or would otherwise better serve the community . |
| 5 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 6 | If a home help had been put in he would probably have gone down hill very fast . |
| 7 | Normally I would never have raised the matter in public but the Tories persistently use Points of Order to accuse Opposition members of misdemeanours . ’ |
| 8 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 9 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 10 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 11 | She missed Maggie , though once she would never have believed it possible . |
| 12 | ‘ I think he had a great superficial knowledge , but if you delved too deeply you would probably have felt that he did n't know so much . |
| 13 | If she had not learned to clean so thoroughly she would never have taken each and every picture off the wall to dust both the picture and the wall behind . |
| 14 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 15 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 16 | Hence he would probably have remained open-minded . |
| 17 | Twenty-four hours later it would still have required access to a crystal ball to predict the result after some of the most enthralling encounters seen on a golf course since man first put club to ball . |
| 18 | If she really had n't felt up to coming out she would surely have said ? |
| 19 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 20 | Well I would never have thought of that . |
| 21 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 22 | Surely she would never have behaved like that . |
| 23 | Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side . |
| 24 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 25 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 26 | Were he alive today he would undoubtedly have bemoaned the fact that he was the frequent target of what he would have probably called ‘ scribblers ’ . |
| 27 | If it has been made of lead , then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel . |
| 28 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 29 | Remember how you would gladly have given your life to have saved his or hers ? |
| 30 | If the WCC were not to be involved , then we would also have to fund air fares ( say £1000 ) . |