Example sentences of "[pers pn] probably would have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games .
2 Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them !
3 Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight
4 Yea , drinking 's always got me into trouble in the past , I mean now I 've thought about it , I 've thought what a stupid idiot I 'd be , so you know if it was n't for the course , then I probably would have gone and done it again , you know , without a second thought .
5 Erm that 's something I 've got er before I arrived here today in all honesty I probably would have said yes .
6 I probably would have stayed longer if I had n't fallen in love with Isobel .
7 If there had been a loose lamp-post in sight I probably would have grabbed that .
8 If I had felt that I could n't cope with him , I probably would have had him adopted , or had an abortion , but it was my choice to have him .
9 I probably would have worked out well , I 'll be the spare man , I 'll need four men working on five lathes , because I 'll need a spare lathe in case one falls over , so I can keep four running , I 'll need four men in case one of them 's sick or one , when they go on holidays I can fill in , so we can always get four lathes working .
10 Now I know that she probably would have done .
11 She probably would have done if she had been left to her own devices !
12 But she 's ready to go off really , she probably would have done if Robert had n't tipped the milk everywhere !
13 It would be no problem for her to make a meal for two , or suggest he bring a take-away , and , prior to this morning , she felt she probably would have agreed to that .
14 ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think .
15 If it had been suggested at any other time , by anyone else , she probably would have laughed , ridiculed the suggestion , treated it with casual indifference .
16 Had Jonas Hamilton himself asked her she probably would have confided , but not to Travis .
17 but you probably would 've missed other things .
18 Well how difficult a season has it been so far , I mean for instance , in the minor County Championship a lot of matches were drawn I think that last season you probably would have won ?
19 No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that .
20 Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’
21 I meant that , in the case of any other industry , we probably would have let nature take its course .
22 with , you know , there 's some super patients I 'd love to take it to , and I do n't think they probably would have minded if having having thought about it if I 'd asked .
23 you know , if if he 'd been left to probably some other doctor he probably would have said , oh you know , you can just have a catheter or something .
24 It is unfair to Moniz because he probably would have developed the technique of prefrontal leucotomy anyway and it is unfair on Jacobsen because the substance of Jacobsen 's work was that frontal lobe removal produced a severe cognitive deficit which no-one would wish on another person .
25 When Ali Marwash 's daughter died the custom was followed to the letter since the girl was Ali Marwash 's only child and he cared for her more then he probably would have done had there been sons in the family .
26 He said : ‘ Strikers thrive on confidence and if Campbell had scored when he was clean through , he probably would have grown another six inches .
27 But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view .
28 And certainly if it had happened to Katy , it probably would have made no impact on her at all .
29 It probably would have shut the Valve up , too , all that power boiling through its stasis energy field .
30 To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain .
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