Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | have ever thought in the same year , we 'd have lost two of the greatest players that this country has ever seen . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 3 | A station there would have constituted one of the wonders of the world . |
| 4 | Bowbazaar links Calcutta 's business district with the hugely-crowded Sealdah suburban railway terminus and an explosion of this intensity during daytime would have killed hundreds of people , he said . |
| 5 | In the normal run of things , had a verbal warning been necessary — which it certainly was n't — then it was without question that Naylor Massingham would certainly not have wasted his precious time on such trips , but would have delegated one of his underlings to do it . |
| 6 | Then Pumfrey did try to comfort him , as he would have done one of his own . |
| 7 | Stockman recognized that the sort of fundamental change he sought ‘ would have hurt millions of people in the short run ’ and involved the , ‘ ruthless dispensation of short run pain in the name of long term gain' , but these , he believed , were the hazards that true revolutionaries faced without flinching . |
| 8 | An Alliance candidate , Canavan , was again the runner-up who would have needed two-thirds of the non-transferable votes to bring him above McClure ( DUP ) who was elected seventh . |
| 9 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 10 | If the venue which staged the Dickies gig which he moaned about had imposed such a bigoted , snobbish door policy then , if his account is anything to go by , the audience would have considered one of intolerant wanker and a small number of his friends . |
| 11 | If the venue which staged the Dickies gig which he moaned about had imposed such a bigoted , snobbish door policy then , if his account is anything to go by , the audience would have considered one of intolerant wanker and a small number of his friends . |
| 12 | Rain reminded him he would have put hundreds of people out of work . |
| 13 | They would have got two of us . |