Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been brave I would have hit him . |
| 2 | I was afraid I would have to move when Alan came back but he wanted someone to keep house for him so it worked out very well . ’ |
| 3 | By the time she reached the Campo San Maurizio , she felt so tired that she was almost afraid she would have to climb the cold stone stairs to the first floor on her hands and knees . |
| 4 | ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’ |
| 5 | Had his character been different she would have welcomed his attention . |
| 6 | For the time being she was useful to annoy Gina , but if she got too possessive he would have to drop her . |
| 7 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 8 | He was already jealous of the easy friendship between the sailor and Wirth-Miller and was wounded by the remark that what Denis could have free he would have to pay for . |
| 9 | Yet if his character had been different he would have attracted an ordinary-looking girl . |
| 10 | Dr Barbara Burrell of the University of Cincinnati commented , ‘ Some experts have suggested that the palace 's position between the theatre and the stadium may not be consistent with Herod 's personality as a paranoid who would have wanted to distance himself from the people of the city of Caeserea . |
| 11 | The tiny Edwardian theatre has been completely refurbished and presenting the cast of its festive programme on a warm summer 's day at Churches Mansion , Nantwich , the management said it was convinced it would have packed houses every night . |
| 12 | Since Leapor , according to Freemantle , destroyed much of her juvenilia , it is possible she would have wanted to exercise similar judgement over the publication of her two volumes . |
| 13 | If there are any other suggestions There were none , and it being obvious who would have to head the subscribers , Richard wound up the meeting by reading aloud a letter from Willis , delivered by way of Bluebird , in which , addressing them all as shipmates , he sent them all a squeeze of the hand and God bless . |
| 14 | We I wonder how quick they would have got him in though if he would n't have been in a private scheme . |
| 15 | It was obvious they would have to abandon the run of Caesar and Cleopatra and close the theatre until an actor could be found to portray Hook . |
| 16 | People stared running to their doctor cut finger , where previous they would have said , oh I 'll have a an aspirin and a cup of tea . |
| 17 | Even fully fit he would have stood little chance against the oriental , who was an expert in martial arts combat . |
| 18 | The court held that for the application of the rule to have been lawful it would have had to be justifiable irrespective of race or ethnic or national origins . |
| 19 | It seems likely he would have said they did . |
| 20 | Unlucky I would have said . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing to me , and I 'm sure I would have heard . |
| 22 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 23 | ‘ Else I 'm sure I would have seen you around . |
| 24 | I 'm sure I would have noticed . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child . |
| 26 | I 'm sure I would have missed it had I not been waiting for somebody nearby . |
| 27 | I am sure I would have gone to the Crusades and done my bit , although that might just have been the racist in me or my natural desire to loot . |
| 28 | And I 'm sure I would have left the club readily and earlier if I 'd known what he was going to say later . |
| 29 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 30 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |