Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had kept my wits and remained coherent I would probably have realised the manager 's job was third prize . |
| 2 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 3 | It is tempting to suppose , however , that if homoeopathy were not efficacious it would scarcely have survived for so long , since it would be expected that doctors would cease to practise it or patients to demand it . |
| 4 | But the harder they pressed her , the more confused she would probably have become . |
| 5 | Much of the way things would happen depends on the sort of girls there were ; if some were more robust and tom-boyish they would probably have explored the island , but would be unlikely to cause damage unnecessarily while exploring , as the boys did . |
| 6 | As space is very tight it would probably have to be limited to one page . |
| 7 | Their replies to my questions may not be those that I had in mind , but by telling them that they were incorrect I would probably have ensured that they would not be so willing to answer again . |
| 8 | And I was happy because I was sure I would soon have three good friends . |
| 9 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 10 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 11 | Reluctantly , Charlotte agreed , even though she was sure he would already have been in touch with them in such an event . |
| 12 | I asked Shadwell , sure he would never have heard of it . |
| 13 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 14 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 15 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 16 | If I had been sober I would never have bloody claimed it ! |
| 17 | And two thirds said they would only have sex in a long-term relationship . |
| 18 | Had he been alive he would doubtless have been delighted at the response of the leading conservative theatre critic to What the Butler Saw ( 1969 ) : ‘ Orton 's terrible obsession with perversion , which is regarded as having brought his life to an end and choked his very high talent , poisons the atmosphere of the play . |
| 19 | I 'm almost certain I would never have been a writer if it was n't for the Moroneys . |
| 20 | Had the news been bad I would certainly have been called earlier . |
| 21 | If he had not felt really bad he would never have drunk it all , he would have saved some for me . ’ |