Example sentences of "[adv] we would have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Well , obviously we would have liked a erm a lot more oil , oil , we got the oil , ai n't we , the horses
2 he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive .
3 Where we 're taking measures from the image er such as height width etcetera we 'd have to know a lot about the image to take those measures .
4 Clearly we would have to have a separate system for representing the presence of objects and their features that was not dependent on knowing their identity .
5 The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter .
6 But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started .
7 Maybe then we would have prepared a different course of action . ’
8 If we consider why people become hypocrites — as far as I know , no one is ever born one — then we would have to suggest a variety of motives .
9 If it was just for money , then we would have had a ransom demand by now . ’
10 Every now and then we 'd have to climb a huge wall , or jump a ditch , or crawl through a barrel .
11 Ted might decide he does n't like me any more , that I laugh too loudly or drink too much of his beer , and then we 'd have to get a tent .
12 ‘ Approval of these plans will enable us to retain and build on our existing workforce , which is what we want to do , otherwise we would have to find a completely new site , probably out of Wales , too far away for most of our existing employees . ’
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