Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 19 Walker would have loathed such an association . |
| 2 | Under the British system virtually every seat in Wallonie would have returned Socialists and virtually every seat in Flanders would have returned Christian Democrats . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 5 | Penny would have known more wives from the Agency and from the Bureau than she would have met wives from the Service . |
| 6 | Gary Lineker would have looked great in that , not to mention Gazza . |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , Alexander would have liked that . |
| 8 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh said : ‘ Agnes Poley would have understood that atmosphere too . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | England would have had six existing internationals in the team but Kevin Stamp was accidently hit in the mouth by a stick at the training weekend and has withdrawn . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well , Dominic would have played more but he could n't get in the blooming team ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was a loud laugh which Sandison would have found embarrassing if there had been lots of people in the bar . |
| 16 | Had he succeeded , Sartre would have established dialectical reason as successfully for the human sciences as Kant had established analytical reason for natural science . |
| 17 | John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor 's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead . |
| 18 | And we think that Gen McCreery would have given short shrift to anyone who tried to pull the wool over his eyes . |
| 19 | The sun was shining this time , but Alyssia would have remembered that little house anywhere . |
| 20 | A medieval visitor to Cambridge would have passed twelve churches as he walked through the town , roughly a hundred yards apart over a stretch of a mile ; and Cambridge was a very modest town . |
| 21 | Brooking , Devonshire or Dickens would have rendered useless Leeds 's tedious offside trap by the simple expedient of running through from deep with the ball . |
| 22 | One would have thought Willi would have drummed some kind of graciousness into him . |
| 23 | Surely , in a different generation , John Jackson would have gained more honours than his single appearance for the Football League . |
| 24 | Dropping version 2 of OSF/1 would have left those on-going developments undeployable . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Oliver would have had more sense and initiative . |