Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one would 've eaten anything and my party would 've been a flop . ’ |
| 2 | No one would have wanted to listen . ’ |
| 3 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |
| 4 | If you 'd shuffled him into , say , motoring , no one would have cared . |
| 5 | Marie thought of her own mother with her frumpy clothes and ageing , lined face : no one would have guessed that she was only forty-two . |
| 6 | One Sunday in May Sarah walked to Turnmill Street with a slice of meatloaf , a fruit pie and various other luxuries tied up in brown paper to look like laundry , By then she was five months into pregnancy , though no one would have guessed , although she did n't climb the stairs with her usual briskness . |
| 7 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 8 | No one would have guessed that Piers and Nicole were involved , least of all her husband . |
| 9 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 10 | When she last flew into London no one would have noticed the elfin-formed teenager drift through customs . |
| 11 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure no one would have noticed ’ |
| 13 | He could , for instance , quite easily have taken Mrs Goreng aside later in the day and no one would have noticed . |
| 14 | ( It did n't come near the hair line so if he had n't kept tapping it no one would have noticed it . ) |
| 15 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 16 | No one would have realised what was happening . ’ |
| 17 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 18 | I have often reflected that if the founders , Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst , had behaved like any other rural landowners , living it up through judicious stock-market investments , no one would have raised an eyebrow . |
| 19 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 20 | No one would have believed then that , three years on , hundreds of newly-qualifieds would be redundant — and that perks would be cut , salaries frozen — and even harder to believe , that management and certified accountants could be sought in preference . |
| 21 | Iago ambled down out of the forest in mid-afternoon , on a Welsh mountain pony with a barrel like a butt of wine , a cross-grained temper , and a turn of speed no one would have credited from her build . |
| 22 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 23 | In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress . |
| 24 | If the trust had n't needed these holes we 'd have had to bring soil in by lorry at great expense through surrounding villages which no one would have liked . |
| 25 | ‘ They made turnover projections that no one would have managed to meet , ’ reflects Sue Carroll . |
| 26 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 27 | Then no one would have minded , ’ he said . |
| 28 | For an afternoon 's work , it was hardly going to be Tosca and given the raw materials no one would have minded had they chanted ’ What a Load of Rubbish ’ . |
| 29 | Off-stage , no one would have looked at Jamie twice , standard rips in his faded jeans and political tee-shirt . |
| 30 | No one would have dreamt the suffering and the cruelty it can cause . |