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

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1 The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd .
2 Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back .
3 If I was stupid I do n't think I would have got this far .
4 ‘ I do n't think I would have ever thought any more about it , except that years later my mother was reading a novel about gypsies and discovered that Dohti was an old Romany name .
5 I do n't think I would have it in me to start again with another group .
6 I do n't think I would have gone on with my own writing if you had n't shown such interest and liking for my work ( which I must admit I was a bit suspicious at first ! ) .
7 I do n't think I would have gone to London to govern Scotland . ’
8 Do you think I would have let the Master grow into the twisted megalomaniac he is if I could have prevented it ?
9 But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids .
10 If someone had sat me down when I was young and said , ‘ All right , tell us your problems , ’ I do n't think I would have got into the trouble I did .
11 I do n't think I would have got away from the KGB so easily .
12 Even now I do n't think I would have acted any other way .
13 And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner .
14 Erm , when I first started erm I think the typists felt that erm as an ordinary typist I ought to er be in the typing pool but the I 'm glad I did n't because I do n't think I would have felt very happy amongst er
15 I thought this was very unfair and erm , but then luckily really because erm I do n't think I would have let the job would have been difficult even if er I 'd had my wife as , for transporting me around to these various people .
16 ‘ Do you think I would have waited around for all this if I had ? ’
17 ‘ And if it were all true , do you really think I would have admitted it ?
18 I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in .
19 Without him , I do n't think I would have got so far in my career .
20 I do n't think I would have done .
21 The thing is , I do n't think I would have shaved my legs now , cos I 'd feel too guilty .
22 You need n't think I 'd have come to see you in Brixton .
23 ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years .
24 And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either .
25 I do n't think I 'd have been more so had the door opened on , say , a Teddy Bear , redolent of the fabulous Oxford of Evelyn Waugh .
26 On December 21 last year , my daughter turned to me and said : ‘ Thank you , Mum , I do n't think I 'd have managed so well without you . ’
27 Here was this girl who seemed to think I was capable of clearing up her troubles , but did n't think I 'd have enough brains to find out her identity .
28 ‘ I did n't think I 'd have a bottom or a scalp , ’ he says .
29 If I was The John Dyson , do n't you think I 'd have a better chance of getting theatre seats ?
30 ‘ Do you think I 'd have bothered to knock first , if I were ? ’
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