Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] would have " in BNC.

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1 I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations .
2 It did hold us up I mean we would have been down there a lot quicker if we had n't had
3 Yeah but I mean we 'd have a a flat without any any mortgage .
4 tongued and grooved or , or something pine for the kitchen wall , do it , pay it , forget it right , so , I mean I do n't know what wood I mean we 'd have , we 'd have to see it , but I said to him look I said something 's got ta be done , so I said to him shall we get Gary or somebody similar to do some Artexing in here and he said well with the coal fire and all that he said it 'll , it 'll get dirty
5 I mean what would have happened to us kids if if she 'd have been like him ?
6 I mean it would have been a hell of a lot of
7 I mean it would have to happen to me , yeah .
8 So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution .
9 I mean I would have to say that that , that turn by the Chinese Communist Party meant that it was a turn away from the idea that it was the , the ordinary people themselves who , who should shape their own destiny .
10 Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that .
11 Now my , I mean I would have to say , I mean very clearly , that they 're inseparable .
12 So I mean I would have thought they 've got ta comply with the same
13 Well , he need n't , I mean I would have stayed in bed .
14 bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud
15 Well I would er , I mean I 'd have the bathroom slightly cooler then and all !
16 Er but I mean as , as to returns , I mean you 'd have to look at specialist press for that erm
17 There 's no real I mean you 'd have to be in a real big way of a business and use a large proportion of your house for the gain on that proportion to exceed five thousand eight hundred .
18 Cos I mean you 'd have your employer plan for the year anyway really .
19 I mean you 'd have no problem with this .
20 Oh you 're on holiday for a couple of days , I mean you 'd have thought you know , since you 're on holiday just have a little drinky or two but no ca n't persuade her , ca n't you tell me why you just come out of a Yorkshire pub .
21 I mean you 'd have a conversation anyway .
22 I mean you 'd have all the conversation anyway in there , so oh it 's
23 I think she should , she might not be able , they 'll be , they 'll be I should think , I mean you 'd have to , you 'd have to see when aunty Mary were coming on what whenever
24 did n't understand the two years , I mean he would have told the regulator .
25 So it 's like that without , I mean , with Carla , I mean , you ca n't you know , you just ca n't think when you 've got ta I mean she would have been bored and she would n't have looked at the gifts .
26 Oh yeah I mean she would have been born in the forties would n't she not seventies !
27 So I mean she 'd have to be a very speculative investor , she 'd have to be right up to er adventurous , for her to think about that .
28 I mean she 'd have been knocked over , I mean I know she 's pretty swift .
29 I mean she 'd have
30 Now this is rather a banal claim I suppose that erm the proper function of government is to manage things well , I mean who would have doubted that , but the other claim that governments , one of the roles of governments is to improve the citizens is more surprising , particularly for a liberal view and there 's a more standard liberal position now would be that the moral well-being citizens is not a proper matter of governmental concern .
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