Example sentences of "[pers pn] would not have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without the help of ACET and other direct service organisations and charities , I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 2 | Without the help of ACET and other similar organisations I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 3 | But without the help of ACET and other voluntary organisations I would not have been able to maintain my independence . ’ |
| 4 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 5 | Fortunately the incident took place during the school holidays , otherwise I would not have been in the garden later in the morning , when a cock started crowing . |
| 6 | ‘ We are both aware , I dare say , that were my royal lord with me now , I would not have been brought to such a pass . |
| 7 | Jim said : ‘ In the end I had to accept his £4,500 offer and write the rest off — otherwise I would not have been able to pay my men 's wages that week . |
| 8 | If he had been close to the cliff I would not have been able to see him , but I could see the whole section of shoreline , and there was no boat there . |
| 9 | For my part I would not have been prepared to make an order in the terms proposed unless I knew that the letter was written by or with the direct authority of either the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 10 | Before Ma left me to collect my new sister from Maternity I would not have been able to execute this upward stretch unaided , now I hold the pose perfectly , without touching the chair back . |
| 11 | ‘ But I would not have been able to concentrate properly on my own game . |
| 12 | ‘ And in Jamaica I would not have been able to do it . |
| 13 | She wrote that without the challenge of some who were Christians of a particular persuasion , " I would not have been aware of how deeply my own assumptions had constructed the fantasy that I had desired " ( Kathy Raban in Hammond et al. |
| 14 | ‘ Not only would she have put your sister to some considerable nuisance , for I would not have been able to see her had things gone according to schedule … ’ |
| 15 | White added : ‘ It 's great to get my game back , but I would not have been disappointed if Alan had won . ’ |
| 16 | If I had continued full-time at the University , I would not have been able to develop all these research interests . |
| 17 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 18 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 19 | Yet her mind had been so parched by convention that had her full complement of guests not interacted in the manner of characters in a well-made play , set in a small hotel in Scandinavia , she would not have been able to cope . |
| 20 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 21 | Yet she also knew that if she had succumbed to her longing she would not have been satisfied , knowing what she now knew of the terrible difficulties of love . |
| 22 | Charles feels that his parents would have completed their family with Diana while the Princess herself feels that she would not have been born . |
| 23 | If her father had told him that he had also to hold the rod in his hand and drop the line into the water she would not have been surprised . |
| 24 | She would not have been surprised if The Towers had had dungeons to store them in . |
| 25 | ‘ She would not have been able to resist him , ’ he said . |
| 26 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 27 | In leaving the room , swelling for the first time with tears , she had collided awkwardly with Gordon 's mother , who supposed she could stand where she liked in her own house , and even if Edward had called after her , she would not have been able to hear him . |
| 28 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 29 | She came out of their lounge with irritation written all over her ; I think if she had n't liked me she would not have been annoyed . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |