Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabethan audiences would presumably have spotted at once that he was ‘ putting on the style ’ with his phrases cobbled together out of distant memories of Kyd , Marlowe , and Greene . |
| 2 | Keegan said : ‘ If I sold him , I would only have to spend at least the same amount on a replacement . ’ |
| 3 | Slow down in your mad rush from chore to chore and talk to those in the shop or office , on the platform or pavement , whom previously you would only have nodded at . |
| 4 | In the future , if ever my old feelings about Mr Rochester began to return , I would only have to glance at the two pictures to see the great difference between us , and in this way common sense would destroy my foolish dreams . |
| 5 | If somebody had suggested to Agnes that she was not security-minded , she would just have stared at them . |
| 6 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 7 | These are eminently sensible things , which Reagan would not have done at gunpoint , and much the same themes run through the more contentious measures . |
| 8 | They would not have felt at ease if the beach had been entirely unpeopled , and indeed it was not , but over here balls would not bounce nor running youngsters kick sand up on to their towels , and there was the shade essential for Jack , which his wife had still to remind him about . |
| 9 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 10 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 11 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 12 | A number of non-British visitors were heard to mutter that it would not have happened at Frankfurt . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 14 | During Key Biscayne , Jennifer was asked if she agreed with Monica Seles ' current belief that if she had known then , what she knows now , what life on the tennis circuit would be like , she would not have started at such an early age . |
| 15 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 16 | Foreign investors in search of an East African base , who would once have looked at Kenya , are now increasingly looking at Uganda . |
| 17 | Thus by 1930 , when a Roman would still have felt at home on an Andalusian estate , Catalonia contained some of the largest textile concerns in Europe and the immigrant labour , which poured into the Catalan towns in order to escape the wretchedness of rural life , brought into the labour movements of a modern industrial civilization the millenarian tradition of peasants and landless labourers . |
| 18 | I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice |
| 19 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 20 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 21 | C. S. Lewis would probably have laughed at being called a spiritual director , yet many of his letters contain such insights . |
| 22 | Although this would hardly seem fast enough to catch prey , the smaller reptilian and amphibious animals would also have run at similarly slower speeds . |
| 23 | When he was inside the house , Culley noticed the characteristic he would n't have guessed at . |
| 24 | If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be , then she would n't have reacted at all . |
| 25 | If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court . |
| 26 | Maybe they should have had foresight and er this would n't have happened at Bilsthorpe . |
| 27 | ‘ It would n't have happened at Wembley , though ’ he says . |
| 28 | ‘ Julie would n't have resisted at all . |
| 29 | Perhaps she would n't have to speak at all . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes so that she would n't have to look at him . |