Example sentences of "than [pron] would have [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I did n't feel any more afraid , walking into the flats , than I would have felt walking on the road at night you know in in where I 'd been before . |
| 2 | Well I certainly did n't find it any more dangerous living in the flats , than I would have found living in . |
| 3 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 4 | And once broken , once the grief and tears had begun , it would take some little time for her to recover , although now that she had faced what had happened she might do so more quickly and easily than she would have done had she continued suppressing her memories , and refusing healthy grieving . |
| 5 | Dithering nervously with the colour-coded translucent cube-sleeves watching her intrusion , it took her longer than she would have liked to calm down enough to start . |
| 6 | ‘ And , if I may say so , my suspicions are that you 'll be making a considerably better living on the salary I pay you than you would have made working for yourself … ’ |
| 7 | And I certainly think that they felt more comfortable coming to our flat , than they would have felt coming to a big private house somewhere |
| 8 | The consequence of this ( and the unpredictable timing of death ) is that individuals may leave more to their heirs than they would have left had there been perfect markets . |
| 9 | What then of the Government 's claim that it is spending more money in income support than it would have done had the previous supplementary benefit system remained in place ? |
| 10 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 11 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 12 | But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States . |
| 13 | Herr Nordern would , yes , although he would no more have refused than he would have tried to jump over the Wall . |
| 14 | If Sid chose to hang on , he could now sell his shares for around 85% more than he paid — a far better deal than he would have got buying the market as a whole . |