Example sentences of "and [pers pn] would [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 2 | And , at that time I realized what my friend had gone through , and I knew what I had gone through , and I would willingly have gone on having babies for erm out of compassion for people who could n't have children and I would have done it much more naturally ! |
| 3 | Also , I am not a typist and I would never have written my first book if I did not know that Joyce was able and willing to decipher my handwriting , unsnarl my spelling and type the manuscript . |
| 4 | We were just girlfriend and boyfriend and I would never have done anything to harm her . |
| 5 | I do n't remember any unusual faces that lunchtime and I would definitely have spotted a famous one like that . ’ |
| 6 | Edward and I would only have gotten in each other 's hair . ’ |
| 7 | At that point Dawn and I would usually have to leave the room . |
| 8 | I do n't want to spend too long — there 's a lot else to do in London and I 'd rather have the autopsy before I ask too many questions . |
| 9 | ‘ I sometimes use an ambient mic on guitars , but I find that it can make things sound a bit too boxy and I 'd rather have the choice on the mix if I want to add a bit of ambience . |
| 10 | And I 'd rather have coffee than tea … ’ |
| 11 | And I 'd rather have the things I used to see than your phoney talk any day . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 'd never have thought Buckmaster capable of such a human remark . |
| 13 | I 'd have found some boring ordinary job and paid off the cops and you 'd have your new crystal and I 'd never have met Marco and his pals and I 'd be a happier woman today . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 15 | And because you are so much older , you would n't see yourself as competing for the same resources , and you would probably have matured in ways emotionally , that would make you accept and identify with the parental values , rather than , than feel sad or , or resentful , because you felt you were more like your brother , as it were , and you were being discriminated against . |
| 16 | I have seen them leaving Stronsay after a dance and you would still have heard them singing when they reached Papay . |
| 17 | And you would go back to that and you would maybe have um you maybe had you 'd maybe have a chest of drawers and the drawers were out and you would be polishing you know , doing so much on them , put them aside and then go back to that . |
| 18 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She was a lovely wee girl and you would never have heard her saying a bad word about anybody . ’ |
| 20 | You could do okay you could do that and then you would have used up all the oxygen and you 'd just have nitrogen left , but burning something in a liquid in liquid air is gon na be a bit awkward , it could n't be done . |
| 21 | is that basically erm you you go and work as a dogsbody and erm graduates are allowed to take the exams within two years and and you 'd probably have to go on night school thing or something |
| 22 | if you were born in the Mediterranean you would of been eating that stuff anyway and you 'd never have , think about it |
| 23 | It would take so much courage to find another doctor , and she would surely have to go to a hospital to do so . |
| 24 | He saw no reason to add that from now on , her body would break down : she would gradually become slower in her movements , she would tire more easily and lack stamina , and she would probably have another stroke in seven years ' time — at the latest . |
| 25 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |
| 26 | It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing , since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks . |
| 27 | Tristan 's arrival had prevented her and she would never have found the right words to accompany the gift in any case . |
| 28 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 29 | Actually , Jan is a very sweet lady and a good professional and she would happily have stayed in that room — but it would have been wrong . |
| 30 | At this rate she would have an accident , and she 'd only have her own stubbornness to blame for it . |