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Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I would 'ave agreed wiv yer at one time , ’ Sadie replied .
2	I would 'ave preferred couture , of course .
3	I would have cut interest rates very sharply now to three or four per cent .
4	If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal .
5	That that 's just I would have said Chairman anyway I would have probably have taken
6	‘ I would have said farewell , ’ Nicholas said .
7	‘ Mind you , if you 'd said in advance I would have done gooseberry sauce .
8	I would have made love to thousands
9	Having said that , there have been times , one particular occasion in the west of Ireland I remember only too well , when after four days of heavy rain , I would have swapped tent , pack , pots and all for a warm bed and a hot bath .
10	I would have thought romance would take up a lot of your time . ’
11	I du n no but , I would have thought Mum would have said that .
12	I would have thought Centre half one of the more easier positions for talent spotting .
13	I would have thought Niki could take all these views of himself with a grain of salt .
14	I would have thought aunty Cath would have phoned Wednesday night when you came back from Cargill
15	I would have thought silk a little ostentatious for Russia , but nobody asked my opinion .
16	To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question .
17	I would have committed suicide if I could , but I was too scared .
18	Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’
19	Had he smiled I would have expected gold teeth .
20	I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree .
21	‘ With Chris being injured , I would have brought Budgie over here for this match .
22	Colour-wise it looks a bit anaemic ; I presume its cellulose finish will darken , if you can wait that long , although I would have preferred Fender to have tinted the lacquer a little to increase the ‘ butterscotch ’ element in the colouring .
23	I often wonder if , when they 've selected a person say right , I 'll choose number three , when number one goes by and number two goes by afterwards if they think oh you know , no , I would have preferred number two .
24	In fact , ’ he added with silken cruelty , ‘ I would have put money on it working , they way things were going .
25	I would have picked number one you see and erm of course there was the er I knew the name Barbara erm and knew she 'd got a shop called Hitched in Northampton er er anyway when I was in the library I thought well I 'll just see if Hitched is in the telephone book you see , and it was .
26	Had I been a little less successful in catching chub or , worse , met with a complete blank , then Heaven knows if I would have continued specimen hunting .
27	The annal concerned can not in its present form be strictly contemporary , for nobody would have identified Swegen by referring to him as Cnut 's father at this date , but this is not an adequate reason for rejecting its information .
28	Bush 's signature of the civil rights bill on Nov. 21 was overshadowed by the withdrawal of a proposed presidential order which would have ended government affirmative action and hiring guidelines benefiting blacks and women .
29	It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) .
30	Voters narrowly rejected this scheme , which would have devolved responsibility to the communal level of authority , and cut down on the amount of incineration .