Example sentences of "[adv] would [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , to put it another way , how long would we have to wait before random chemical events on the planet , random thermal jostling of atoms and molecules , resulted in a self-replicating molecule ? |
| 2 | Roughly how long would it have taken , walking at 4 km per hour , to cross from the fields on one side to the fields on the other side ? |
| 3 | erm How long would it have taken five men ? |
| 4 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 5 | ‘ Not only would she have put your sister to some considerable nuisance , for I would not have been able to see her had things gone according to schedule … ’ |
| 6 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 7 | Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out . |
| 8 | Not only would he have to destroy all evidence of his old body , but somehow transport himself planetside without raising suspicion . |
| 9 | So would you have to vote again like ? |
| 10 | ‘ So would you have done in the circumstances , ’ he said wearily , not wanting to get drawn into an argument . |
| 11 | Well I have to say that as a result of last night 's session I have a much healthier view of Hydro Electric and I do so would I have got that from the programme ? |
| 12 | So would I have to work longer then ? |
| 13 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 14 | I paused , and asked Sam directly , ‘ How soon would you have rolled up the curtain ? ’ |
| 15 | When they reached the first sight of the city , it is recorded , Jesus wept , exclaiming : ‘ O , Jerusalem , Jerusalem , how often would I have gathered thy children , as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings , and ye would not . ’ |
| 16 | Then , on the same scale , how far would you have to walk , in order to get back to Lucy and her kind , the earliest human fossils that unequivocally walked upright ? |
| 17 | And how far would you have to walk , in order to get back to the start of evolution on Earth ? |
| 18 | Do you feel that that would have solved the situation on Piper Alpha altogether or how far would it have gone to perhaps lessening the the blow of the the occasion ? |
| 19 | How far would it have developed with cash-limited funds ? |
| 20 | How far would it have developed with cash-limited funds ? |
| 21 | Now would you have done that , five , ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 22 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 23 | But what precisely would it have meant to ‘ serve the working class ’ over this period ? |
| 24 | How would we have done against the Antipodean giants ? |
| 25 | And how would I have endured . |
| 26 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 27 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 28 | And how would I have ended . |
| 29 | How would I have started out . |
| 30 | How would I have tried to be . |