Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] would have told [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had waited for me to return and confronted me with your distress I would have told you . |
| 2 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 3 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you were in danger I would have told you , ’ he went on . |
| 5 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |