Example sentences of "[noun] we would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But neither of these was close to the grief we would have experienced in the real presence of death . |
| 2 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 3 | At 7000 feet we would have gained another 8–9 kts at 75% power . |
| 4 | Had we been at the house of my parents we would have shared the fate of the rest of the family … |
| 5 | My view of the General Strike is that if we 'd have had a Lenin we 'd have had a revolution . |
| 6 | There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that . |
| 7 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 8 | Will he elaborate and tell us in what circumstances we would have used them ? |
| 9 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 10 | Right from the start , Skipper was happy to take the lead on a hack ; if he had shown reluctance we would have kept his nanny in the background until his confidence grew . |
| 11 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 12 | At sea level we would have got a different picture as the man-eating breakers punched against the rocky coast . |
| 13 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 14 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 15 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , of course we 'd have carried on if we 'd been able to make a living at it . |
| 17 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |
| 18 | If the trust had n't needed these holes we 'd have had to bring soil in by lorry at great expense through surrounding villages which no one would have liked . |
| 19 | Total losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ — which is the largest insurance loss ever recorded — are now estimated at $65m and but for this factor we would have reported a welcome and significant return to profitability in 1992 . |
| 20 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 21 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 22 | If it if it had been a tie we would have tossed a coin . |
| 23 | Oh yes , most of the things we 'd have done the work ourself . |
| 24 | If they said , would you please give five hundred pounds towards our running costs , there 's a chance we would have looked at it |
| 25 | ‘ Fun '90 ’ is an odd one , in which our favourite old people 's home have gone DANCE — albeit with the cranky individuality we would have hoped from the band . |
| 26 | ‘ Fun '90 ’ is an odd one , in which our favourite old people 's home have gone DANCE — albeit with the cranky individuality we would have hoped from the band . |
| 27 | To be honest it was a game we would have won 99 times out of a 100 , but this was one of those occasions when we were destined not to do it . |
| 28 | If the Policyholder does not wish the item replaced but requests a cash settlement , we must make it clear that this is not really a policy entitlement and our offer should be restricted to the price it would have cost us to replace taking into account any discount we would have obtained . |
| 29 | If either of us had had any sense we 'd have realised from the start something like this had happened . |
| 30 | If the mechanism made us faint , or vomit , or have a heart attack , then as cavemen we would have made very easy prey every time we encountered an animal we feared . |