Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’ |
| 2 | Ted thought we 'd have made short work of a mere hundred thousand Hun . |
| 3 | Hilda might have enjoyed it while it lasted , but at the end she 'd have felt upset . ’ |
| 4 | But if if I 'd have , if we 'd have gone joint we 'd have had enough |
| 5 | Not even being allowed to come and see you — if it had n't been for the Suvarovs I think I 'd have gone mad . ’ |
| 6 | If it was n't for him , I 'd have talked Dimitri round . |
| 7 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd have got lost ages before we did . |
| 9 | He certainly was n't dumping his pints on the floor on the sly ; I 'd have got wet if he was . |
| 10 | Said if you 'd have come early ! |
| 11 | But who 'd have expected great lasagna ? |
| 12 | Hunter , one can assume , would have advocated chemical treatment of the entire body . |
| 13 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 14 | This the Society secured for solicitors conducting investment business exemption from the terms of the EC Investment Services Directive , which would have involved burdensome compliance with associated capital requirements . |
| 15 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 16 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 17 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 18 | You mean to say you ladies would have accepted red ? |
| 19 | Only Paul Smith and Colin Harvey ( I thought his full-time job as Howard Kendall 's assistant at Everton would have kept him too busy to put pencil and crayon to paper ! ) got close to producing something workable , but even Smithy 's attempt in green would have fallen foul to Mr Clough 's watchful eye . |
| 20 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 21 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 22 | Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself . |
| 23 | During this expansion , the density fluctuations would have remained small at first , but later would have started to grow . |
| 24 | He would have remained unpaid , and the loser in the matter . |
| 25 | He would have recovered the property from the Hammonds but the property would have remained subject to the charge . |
| 26 | However , if these States had merely applied the specifications of Annex 13 we would have remained unrepresented . |
| 27 | In captivity , he would have caused no pain , would have remained ignorant of his lot . |
| 28 | A former member of his Household , reviewing the collapse of the Wales 's marriage , sincerely believes that he would have remained single if he had been given the choice . |
| 29 | If he had been asked where he got it , that obstinate jaw of his would have remained clenched , but Isambard knew how to ask his questions now . |
| 30 | It was , I think , unlikely that the white Rhodesians — who had already shown some signs of division in their opinion — would have remained undivided indefinitely and a breakaway group might well have sought the allegiance of the black population , enabling them to play a large and even decisive role in government . |