Example sentences of "[that] i would have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice .
2 ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’
3 There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero .
4 I distinctly remember feeling guilty at thinking that I would have to lock my car so these children would n't steal my cameras .
5 After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out .
6 But even if he had given me a direct answer , I do n't know that I would have believed him .
7 I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car .
8 In another tone , she said , ‘ Not that I would have let her . ’
9 You do n't think that I would have left you alone , down here , if I had n't known that you were all well and happy , do you ?
10 ‘ You 're so good at reading my mind that I would have thought you 'd know . ’
11 I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food .
12 I knew in advance that I would have to retrace my steps on this road , to get to the Skye boat at the Kyle of Lochalsh , as there is nowadays only a summer ferry to the island from Glenelg .
13 I was miserable most of the time , but it would be a towering ingratitude to say that I 'd have done anything else with my life . ’
14 Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his …
15 The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me .
16 Well maybe it 's not really right , but , but perhaps that I 'd have thought it would be alright .
17 ‘ Your colouring is so unusual that I 'd have thought you 'd have got quite used to answering that question by now ! ’
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