Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 19 Walker would have loathed such an association . |
| 2 | One was the failure of the self- regulatory body I M R O and the second one was really the fact that he was able to change his financial year end from April ninety-one to December ninety-one and during that period he was able to do things with those erm those funds in his accounts and er and really there was , there was no check on that , and I do n't see that the that was in er Good would have changed much of that situation at that end . |
| 3 | Penny would have known more wives from the Agency and from the Bureau than she would have met wives from the Service . |
| 4 | ‘ Mind you , Alexander would have liked that . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh said : ‘ Agnes Poley would have understood that atmosphere too . |
| 6 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 7 | Whether Mick would have proposed this he did not know ; he only knew that the desire had been there ; but it seemed to be the pattern that she and her uncle left together at dinnertime . |
| 8 | Well , Dominic would have played more but he could n't get in the blooming team ! |
| 9 | She hoped for a reply , but dared not hope too much ; she imagined that the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt would have had many replies and perhaps ladies with experience would be far more preferable to a young comparatively inexperienced girl like her . |
| 10 | John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor 's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead . |
| 11 | The sun was shining this time , but Alyssia would have remembered that little house anywhere . |
| 12 | One would have thought Willi would have drummed some kind of graciousness into him . |
| 13 | Surely , in a different generation , John Jackson would have gained more honours than his single appearance for the Football League . |
| 14 | Dropping version 2 of OSF/1 would have left those on-going developments undeployable . |
| 15 | Sadat was shocked ; later he told his wife that he could not believe that the Shah would have allowed any foreign power such influence over his country 's affairs . |
| 16 | If Pinewood studios had been in need of a resident historian — and the days of historical dramas emanating from that studio seemed themselves to have been consigned to history-Kenneth Williams would have fulfilled that role . |
| 17 | L.G. would have left such a detail to a secretary but S.B. likes to write his own cheques and address his own envelopes . |
| 18 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 19 | Frank played left midfielder/winger in a 4–5-1 formation ( with Jostein Flo from Sheff.Utd. at the right flank and debutant Geir Frigard from Kongsvinger , Norway , as the striker ) and did well , even though ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen would have wanted more movement off the ball from him . |
| 20 | Oliver would have had more sense and initiative . |
| 21 | Batty would have been useful in this match … not only in the playing sense , but we had lots of throw ins level with their box , Batty would have got these into a danger area … |
| 22 | One would have assumed that as two classicists , Punch contributors and men of letters of an old-fashioned Christian temper , Lewis and Knox would have known each other for years . |
| 23 | Of all the visits Scott can only recall one where the SSD would have delivered all eight key tasks in time for April regardless of the Support Force . |
| 24 | As Punch would have said many years ago , ‘ collapse of Stout Party ’ . |
| 25 | As for entertainment , a Welsh village on a Sunday would have had more to offer . |
| 26 | He believed Maureen would have mentioned such a story if she had heard one and he took the view that she had no proof whatsoever . |
| 27 | Tennyson would have frequented this lane in his youth for he liked to visit the Woodman 's cottage which nestles beside a wood and has an astonishingly colourful cottage garden . |
| 28 | How Adolf would have relished this . ’ |
| 29 | It is a conclusion about an almost psychiatric effect ( and comfort ) offered by serious drama which Aristotle would have had much sympathy with . |
| 30 | No doubt Sergeant Blatchford and Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell would have found much to argue about — not least the question of full-time socialist agitators — but here was agreement of sorts , although as we have seen Baden-Powell was more inclined to smuggle in militarism behind fresh air philosophies , nature study and the smoke of jolly camp fires . |