Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ It 's been brilliant in the Air Force and I would n't have missed it . |
| 2 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 3 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 4 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 5 | It would be a little like complimenting a grizzly on his fine thick fur and I would n't have the nerve . |
| 6 | Being a member of the senior team that 's addressing those issues I think gives me a much broader job than I would otherwise have continued to enjoy . ’ |
| 7 | It was a period that I would once have dreaded : short days and biting cold , when the river , so exciting for much of the year reflects the drab January sky and the dead vegetation . |
| 8 | The manager there was quite happy to take people on social security so I would n't have any trouble about that . |
| 9 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 10 | I do n't remember any unusual faces that lunchtime and I would definitely have spotted a famous one like that . ’ |
| 11 | And I 'm going to make a suggestion to my Noble friend Lord he has heard all the erm views which are critical of the Government 's approach and I would not have thought that he had much hope in the division lobby as quite frankly . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't worry , there was no way in the world that I would ever have allowed Janice to get anywhere near her . ’ |
| 13 | " We were never well off , " said a retired miner from the Durham coalfield , " but I was always in employment and I would n't have liked my wife to work . " |
| 14 | Also , I am not a typist and I would never have written my first book if I did not know that Joyce was able and willing to decipher my handwriting , unsnarl my spelling and type the manuscript . |
| 15 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 16 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
| 17 | A feature that I would never have known about otherwise . |
| 18 | I 'd save lots of money as I would n't have to pay for digs . |
| 19 | ‘ And do n't forget , I was by then dominated by my aunt to such an extent that I would n't have dared . |
| 20 | We were just girlfriend and boyfriend and I would never have done anything to harm her . |
| 21 | As my wife said later that day , ‘ One look at your face and I would n't have given you a job . |
| 22 | Yeah , yeah , , but the face if I would n't have known , it 's very beautiful , I 'd like to open it , can I ? |