Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pron] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 2 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 3 | If you wait the full five years , the pension will be one-third higher than what you would have received at age 60 . |
| 4 | The sum was to cover compensation for the notional difference between the actual cost of the house , and what they would have paid if the defect had been known beforehand — it was not to cover the cost of the repairs . |
| 5 | His ferocious idealism made her think over and over again in terror of what her father would have said to her , and what she would have replied , if he had woken up when she shook him . |
| 6 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 7 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 8 | Okay and you sorted this out very nicely what was going to happen and what you 'd have left over . |
| 9 | Somehow , she had a need to know all she could about him — and in there lay the conflict — because whatever she would have asked , or learned , was not for any write-up which she might hand over to her sister for her use , but was private and personal , and for her alone . |