Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
| 2 | British Aluminium own the land , and as soon as I realised I would have to trespass with a car , my imagination started its fevered travail . |
| 3 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 4 | If all else failed I would have to write to the Pope . |
| 5 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 6 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
| 7 | They looked out for Barbara Coleman on the way , but there were taxis about and no one doubted she would have called one . |
| 8 | If that occurred we would have the option to pull them out . |
| 9 | Erm if I tried they would have caught me so I just stand still and do n't scream or cry because I 'll get some more . |
| 10 | But according to the common understanding of neutrality , Uruguay would have been breaking its neutrality if in the circumstances described it would have started supplying one of the parties with militarily useful materials after the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 11 | Whitlock doubted he would have another gun but he still approached the warehouse with professional caution . |
| 12 | Over these last nine years , I have had opportunities to participate in the exercise of more power than I ever imagined I would have . |
| 13 | I imagined I would have a lot of spare time , but my diary is always full . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I assumed I would have been picked for the final . |
| 15 | He imagined she would have been charm personified if she wanted something from him , but offhand and dismissive if she had not . |
| 16 | Not that she imagined she would have any difficulty finding a job . |
| 17 | Halfway through dressing , wearing his shirt and underpants , he looked for Moda in the workroom , where he assumed she would have thrown it on their pile of magazines ; he wanted to gaze at Bella Kropotkin again , but he could n't find the magazine . |
| 18 | Cheddleton Chairman Mr Phillip Oldfield commented : ‘ We have had far more requests from railways for use of the engine than we imagined we would have , it 's been a matter of accepting what we feel is the best offer . |
| 19 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 20 | I thought , just assumed they would have known . |
| 21 | If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame . |
| 22 | She believed it would have been the suitable punishment for killing Mrs MacAllister as the two walked together in a remote forest in March last year . |
| 23 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 24 | In fact , David himself believed it would have been far better to have let the whole matter drop . |
| 25 | It seemed it would have been ill advised to follow the PARIS II route — costs would have been astronomical and timescales unrealistic . |
| 26 | The policewoman was surprised because she assumed he would have been privy to everything about Mills . |
| 27 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 28 | Guy 's spare , witty style of conversation lifted what would have been a family dinner into a special occasion . |
| 29 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 30 | Walking up the path to the front door on legs that felt slightly wobbly Sally realised she would have to be satisfied with that . |