Example sentences of "i [verb] [that] [pron] would have " in BNC.

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1 Just as I realised that we would have to abort our manoeuvre in view of the ship 's overhanging davits there was a loud exclamation from the man on deck , " I say , Cynthia , the captain 's got a blasted parrot on his shoulder . "
2 After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out .
3 When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional .
4 Well it , it I expected that he would have to go and I should have to manage on my own and it was quite er er a , a way to come down to the shop .
5 After my warnings and reports , and then Tony 's murder , [ says Coleman ] I assumed that somebody would have the CIA on the carpet and close NARCOG down .
6 Looking through the booklet the head had given them , I guessed that they would have some difficulty making sense of it .
7 I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds .
8 I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible .
9 If it had n't been for George , Lennie would have probably lived unhappily and I doubt that he would have never received the love and care from anyone else .
10 This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems .
11 Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French .
12 When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie .
13 My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table .
14 I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday .
15 And then I was thirty , and I thought that I would have to start specialising or it would be too late … ’ .
16 There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point .
17 I thought that I would have a go at getting a pilot 's course , which I did — and was soon sharply put in my place .
18 As Layton said , ‘ I still regret that we got no encouragement from the CBC , because I think that we would have gone on to write plays . ’
19 No , I think that we would have liked to have seen more women , I would have liked to have stayed on the Shadow Cabinet , and I would have liked to have seen more women in the Shadow Cabinet , but to say it 's a disaster , and somehow we 've moved away from the path we 've set ourself is simply not the case .
20 For example that of Joe and Biddy which turns out to be a very happy , contented marriage reflecting around home life and this marriage depriving Pip of the chance to propose to Biddy though I think that she would have refused on the grounds that he was still in love with Estella .
21 I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position .
22 When Hindley was sent away to study , I hoped that we would have peace in the house .
23 I discover that I would have to put on nearly three stone to be anywhere near what they weigh , and what I think must be normal .
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