Example sentences of "but i would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I would have gone further . |
| 2 | But I would have imagined that an intelligent woman like you would know how to get herself out of it again . ’ |
| 3 | But I would have to give the money to him , mind . ’ |
| 4 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 5 | But I would have liked daughters because they can help me best in my work . |
| 6 | I do thank Mr for this report , but I would have liked to have seen that the chief executive had been a signatory to it as well . |
| 7 | ‘ I think we are already safe , but I would have liked to help make sure , ’ said Rogan . |
| 8 | But I would have liked to have got the napkins to match , but she said they do n't come in with the napkins . |
| 9 | Oh I 'm not bothered about things like that , but I would have liked a decent size garden . |
| 10 | It has its pointers to the future , but I would have forgiven any Vienna professor in 1876 who failed to predict what was to follow . |
| 11 | He expresses scepticism about Frankfurt 's boast of being able to fill their stadium for every session : ‘ I do n't think they will get 9,000 every day , but I would have achieved that here , where we have developed an audience for the game . |
| 12 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 13 | It was horrible not being able to move but I would have done anything to keep my babies . |
| 14 | But I would have done anyway . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I thought that you would never come home , but I would have waited until the cock crowed . ’ |
| 16 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 17 | ‘ Mikhail … we are still comparative strangers , but I would have hoped you already knew me better than that . |
| 18 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 19 | ‘ But I would have guessed she had a good head for holding her drink . |
| 20 | There was a chance of a place on the Nursing Times Open Learning conversion course , but I would have to fund myself . |
| 21 | But I would have said that something like cutting meat , if you 've got butchers around , it 's not something that you would be , you should be spending your time doing . |
| 22 | It was a poor excuse … but I would have jumped at anything by that time . |
| 23 | I did n't know what I was going to say , but I would have to come up with something . |
| 24 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 25 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 26 | But I would have thought you could have got away with banking once a week . |
| 27 | Lili could be charmingly manipulative , but I would have thought my mother proof against her . |
| 28 | ‘ Probably not , ’ Luke answered flatly , ‘ but I would have thought that your pride demanded that you correct my error . ’ |
| 29 | Er er I d I do n't think that we as a panel are necessarily going to ever and and and it may not be our role in fact to do so , to come to a judgement on it , but I would have thought as a matter of common sense , and common agreement , that there should be some er way in which the various parties would come together on the basic demographic statistics and would certainly accept that certain basic projections should be used i in looking forward . |
| 30 | But I would have thought you 'd expect him to be faithful to you for a day or two at least . ’ |