Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known . |
| 2 | ‘ I had no idea , ’ she informed him earnestly , ‘ no idea at all what Rose had in mind , or I would never have gone with her . |
| 3 | Secondly , I wanted to create a factory where nobody would ever have to do any physical work . |
| 4 | Sloane introduced her to Isaac Rand , the Demonstrator of Plants at the Physic Garden , who advised her to live near it where she would find the plants needed and where she would certainly have met Miller and Ehret . |
| 5 | In order to test it he or she would presumably have to examine a number of literate and non-literate societies from the point of view of their degree of ‘ scepticism ’ . |
| 6 | Sir Nicolas Brown-Wilkinson V-C added that the section is really concerned with helping a liquidator fill in the gaps of any missing information in the company 's records , so that the or she would then have the knowledge that the company should have . |
| 7 | Nor can we think of the Christian God as three persons in the way that we normally consider them to be , or we would surely have to conclude that it was a religion committed to polytheism . |
| 8 | Presumably the French had believed her , or they would hardly have let her go . |
| 9 | It had to be , he had to do something or they would never have er got In other ways in was a lenient school because as the years went by it was , a register was called , a teacher er opened a book and we called numbers . |
| 10 | I do n't suppose No they would n't have any warning about this going to happen or they would never have taking a lot of bairns down among it . |
| 11 | Desire , yes , of course , or they would never have ended up like this , but also a reluctant fascination and a curiously protective tendency that she found both touching and revealing . |
| 12 | My maximum bet had given away my hand and forced Judas to go one way where he would otherwise have certainly gone both . |
| 13 | I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice |
| 14 | The knock-on effect this had for me , which was quite important , was that I would otherwise have had an education slot for social policy issues . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't worry , there was no way in the world that I would ever have allowed Janice to get anywhere near her . ’ |
| 16 | So , so erm wh which , you know , made me smile and I 'm sure it did everybody else but whenever you were asking a question to Martin you , you started laughing as you were telling it erm and that 's I do n't think that I would actually have |
| 17 | But then I told myself that I would only have been his mistress , in a foreign country , and for a short time , until he grew tired of me . |
| 18 | It was a period that I would once have dreaded : short days and biting cold , when the river , so exciting for much of the year reflects the drab January sky and the dead vegetation . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I 've met lots of interesting people that I would never have seen before and I 've even had some nice letters . |
| 20 | But all through my twenties and into my thirties I swore quite testily that I would never have children . |
| 21 | A feature that I would never have known about otherwise . |
| 22 | I felt free that I would never have to go back . ’ |
| 23 | Being a member of the senior team that 's addressing those issues I think gives me a much broader job than I would otherwise have continued to enjoy . ’ |
| 24 | Now she is more independent than I would ever have believed possible . |
| 25 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 26 | But she was inherently an unhappy woman , who had had an unhappy childhood , and possibly an unhappy marriage , although she would never have admitted it . |
| 27 | This vision she had adopted , cultivated , and now it seemed her own , although she would never have conceived of it herself . |
| 28 | She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available . |
| 29 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 30 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |