Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
2 | Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro . |
3 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
4 | I would rather have an RSPCA worker who retained the capacity to weep than one hardened to the darker necessities of the job . |
5 | Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it . |
6 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |
7 | But I saw no other way out : I did n't know if I would ever have a chance again . ’ |
8 | The doctors told me I would never have a child of my own . |
9 | I would never have the chance of an adventure like this again . |
10 | I knew I would never have the courage to go and ask for my job back after the baby was born , even if circumstances allowed it ; it would soon be filled again , and it 's always horrible to go back to a place where you 've been happy in your own little niche and find somebody else in it . |
11 | And one final thought — if I ever come across any Crenicichla species ‘ Xingu III they would fit very well into my tank , with the Uaru , and then I would really have a dream come true ! |
12 | Not only was she exultant at the thought of a holiday in London , but she would also have a week removed from the constant worry of Gareth Davis . |
13 | She would probably have the right to do so in the court in Germany which would have jurisdiction in relation to the place where the events happened , assuming that German law recognises the ground of action contemplated . |
14 | Sir Nicolas Brown-Wilkinson V-C added that the section is really concerned with helping a liquidator fill in the gaps of any missing information in the company 's records , so that the or she would then have the knowledge that the company should have . |
15 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
16 | Perhaps she would never have a child . |
17 | She would never have a confrontation but she would get things done her way . |
18 | It had occurred to her that by devoting her life to her work she would never have the chance to look after her own babies , and her thoughts turned once more to the young man with the dark wavy hair and the expressive blue eyes . |
19 | She had always promised herself she would never have an affair with a married man . |
20 | Nor did she think she would ever have the courage to find out . |
21 | And then it would er at that time you would just have the tank workers and the quarry workers . |
22 | You would still have the problem of needing a large gamma ray detector to observe several gamma ray quanta from the explosion . |
23 | ‘ Mrs Porter uses it or this small room off it , just here , as a sitting-room occasionally , but she does n't live in , so you would virtually have the run of this part of the house . ’ |
24 | You would then have the right to organise her work and most certainly you would see to it that she had little or no large-animal work . |
25 | Erm I found the , the greeting and the appropriate sociability to start with very hesitant but I think that was most probably just nerves on your part Robert , I do n't think it was something that you would usually have a problem with . |
26 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
27 | We would rather have no help at all than continue to do that . ’ |
28 | We would then have a pattern of perfectly dovetailing decisions . |
29 | We would then have a report back in plenary and a time for additional comments . |
30 | We would then have an argument against Yorkshire . |