Example sentences of "[subord] it would have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 2 | She could have had my right arm if it would have given her any pleasure . |
| 3 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 4 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 5 | This was unacceptable to the Turks because it would have involved them in legitimizing Russia 's longstanding and deliberate misinterpretation of the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji of 1774 . |
| 6 | I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it . |
| 7 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 8 | If they had been invited it might have made it easier , since it would have allowed him to slip away unnoticed . |
| 9 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 10 | Not so much the man who had killed him , though it would have pleased her to know that man was dead . |
| 11 | She had refused — even though it would have offered her an easy way out , and then circumstances had intervened and she had ended in the brothels in the notorious Monto . |
| 12 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
| 13 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not even grieve over this child , for it would have kept me here . |