Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Vienna , of course … my only conclusive recourse was to leave the city , which could not be arranged as quickly as I would have liked since I had army business there which demanded my attendance . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr. Preston , my life has n't been everything I would have liked since I came here . |
| 3 | I had infiltrated her teat with a local anaesthetic before stitching but I do n't think she would have moved if I had n't used any . |
| 4 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 5 | When your dad eventually reached you he would have insisted that I marry you . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , ’ I nodded into the trees , ‘ perhaps those bastards would have struck before I reached Glastonbury . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ I 'm not motivated by money , otherwise I would have quit after I 'd made my first eight million dollars , which was enough for me . |
| 8 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 9 | But , of course , she would have noticed so I told her and we turned the scoop to our advantage . |
| 10 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 11 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
| 12 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 13 | Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them ! |
| 14 | My terrors would have increased if I had known how once again Murder was stalking us , in that Godforsaken place . |
| 15 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 16 | Watch me and wonder what would have happened if I had n't sent you away last night , if I 'd done what I longed to do , if I 'd let you make love to me … |
| 17 | ‘ None of it would have happened if I had n't gone chasing after Guy . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't bear to think of what would have happened if I had n't told you . |
| 19 | ‘ I could have arranged to be there when he called … none of this would have happened if I 'd been there to take care of her . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nothing you had done , or said , would have mattered if I had n't . |
| 22 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 23 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 24 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 25 | A major installation of Beuys , ‘ Arena ( where I would have got if I had been intelligent ) ’ , created in 1970–72 ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , remains on exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts until mid-April , while the MoMA exhibition travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles ( 30 May-15 August ) , the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 10 October-2 January 1994 ) and the Art Institute of Chicago ( 15 February-25 April 1994 ) . |