Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’ |
| 2 | I would have liked some manual override on exposure settings , though the fill-in flash is some compensation . |
| 3 | A little longer and I would have had some difficulty . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ For it to be successful , I would have thought some form of power at least to recommend smallish settlements would be a useful aspect … but I would n't envisage the ombudsman as someone dealing with huge claims . ’ |
| 5 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I would have bought some if . |
| 8 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 9 | You would think that when she was n't coming she would have got some word round . ’ |
| 10 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 11 | As part of that appraisal , you would have taken some view . |
| 12 | You would have thought some of them had n't eaten for days , but then perhaps they had n't . |
| 13 | We would have kept some food for you . ’ |
| 14 | Now if we 'd have the voice of the Funny Man guessed we would have had some postal contestant winners , but they now go back in the box with those yet to come in the next week . |
| 15 | You know , some pre-literate tribe somewhere , with the medicine men of the tribes meeting an opposing medicine man of a tribe , they would have done some kind of ceremony beforehand . |
| 16 | They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God . |
| 17 | If the East Europeans could have offered a bit more in the loose and a great deal more behind the scrum , they would have reaped some reward for their excellent work in the line-out . |
| 18 | If he had not felt really bad he would never have drunk it all , he would have saved some for me . ’ |
| 19 | He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate . |
| 20 | He would have found some means of stopping the Yssgaroth . |
| 21 | The most dissapointing thing about the game was the fact that O'Leary did n't get a game he would have got some reception . |
| 22 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 23 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 24 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 25 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 26 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 27 | That approach was also rejected , because it was getting too close to a rating system , but it would have had some logic , a factor that is entirely outwith the system with which we are now confronted . |