Example sentences of "would [adv] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she 'd rather have had some lilac bathsalts , the sort that crumpled to silk in the water . |
| 2 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 3 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 4 | She 'd probably have slapped another man 's face for that , she realised wearily — either that or lobbed back a playfully witty rejoinder . |
| 5 | He 'd probably have admitted any of the local police whom he personally knew , particularly if it were a detective concerned with a recent case . |
| 6 | She 'd never have waited this long . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd never have done this if your grandfather had been alive ! ’ |
| 8 | I 'd never have guessed that . |
| 9 | This , if not mere coincidence , may be some strange legacy , for our heroine is — you 'd never have guessed this one — really an aristocratic heiress who was given at birth to a gypsy family . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd never have got such a bargain on my own , ’ he said . |
| 11 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 12 | I too would gladly have exercised these master-skills , but there was one essential ingredient I lacked : Charlie 's strong will and his massively forceful desire to possess whatever it was that took his fancy . |
| 13 | Indeed , in most cases for most injuries , anybody would say " I would rather have avoided this injury than have any amount of money whatever in compensation " . |
| 14 | Before that , however , periods of extension during the Permian and Mesozoic would presumably have rendered this sealing mechanism inoperative . |
| 15 | ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent . |
| 16 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 17 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 18 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 19 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 20 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 21 | But even if Patrick Milligan had known the size of ‘ Buck ’ O'Hara 's munificence , he would not have raised any objections . |
| 22 | A hurricane would not have dislodged those styles . |
| 23 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 24 | ‘ She would not have exhibited such joy as you are doing , ’ said the new Lord Dacre drily . |
| 25 | Sprawling at his feet would not have done much for her dignity . |
| 26 | Shiva used words like ‘ chap ’ now , and ‘ kiddy ’ , words used by Indians wanting to sound like true Brits , though he would not have done this once . |
| 27 | They would not have done this . |
| 28 | I would not have felt such a burst of passion for a relative . ’ |
| 29 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 30 | If they had done that in '31 , we would not have played any cricket . |