Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable . |
| 2 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 3 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 4 | I would have added a further recommendation to the Clapham conclusions : that British Rail should forthwith desist from any further advertising expenditure and re-route the money to the improvement of safety and engineering standards . |
| 5 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 6 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 7 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 8 | Today , when she went for Lin Foh , she would have to find a firmer resolve . |
| 9 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 10 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |
| 11 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 12 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
| 13 | They would have to develop a wider vision . |
| 14 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 16 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 17 | He paused ; he 'd have to catch a later flight . |
| 18 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 19 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 20 | He 'd have to make a better trap though . |
| 21 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 22 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 23 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
| 24 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 25 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 26 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 27 | Had his life been prolonged , the writer thought it probable that he would have left a deeper mark on the science of the profession . |
| 28 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
| 29 | Is the Minister aware that if the Wakefield district council social services department had to stick to its standard spending assessment it would have to save a further £3 million this year on services for the chronically sick and disabled ? |
| 30 | It would have needed a later generation of social workers , free from the prejudices of war , to detect the frustration behind the mask of ingratitude and disloyalty . |