Example sentences of "you would have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 2 | ‘ You would have exchanged this place for a cousin ? ’ he said in frank disbelief . |
| 3 | How you would have hated this , Gabriel , how you would have hungered for the sea and the sky , the hurly-burly and the heave-ho , the teamwork and the solitude , the unpredictability , the freedom , the danger of the waves . |
| 4 | We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company . |
| 5 | If it was a dunce , you would have done that . |
| 6 | That 's amazing that you went on holiday alone because surely you would have done much |
| 7 | You would have made short work of the lock if you were inclined that way . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If this had been a Serbian place you would have sent 500 troops here , I guarantee it , ’ Mr Delimustafic said . |
| 9 | It 's just that you would have raised much more if you 'd sold the pair . |
| 10 | Ask yourself what you would have bought this cloth for . |
| 11 | From a writer who edited Elle in its snazziest phase you would have expected more nous . |
| 12 | As part of that appraisal , you would have taken some view . |
| 13 | Because after all the right decision is to find in terms of general happiness and so you would have thought that voting was the best way of finding out where their general happiness lies . |
| 14 | Yet you would have thought that you know , it was n't as if I were disrupting the class or anything . |
| 15 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 16 | You would have thought some of them had n't eaten for days , but then perhaps they had n't . |
| 17 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 18 | You would have thought these buses would |
| 19 | They please , I thought in context you would have got that . |
| 20 | " I thought you would have changed that ? " |
| 21 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 22 | You would have had four . |
| 23 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |
| 24 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |
| 25 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |
| 26 | Now whether you like it or not , and you 're not in our position , because we er prepared to manage this authority , you would have had that same reduction to find , and I did hear Councillor and he was also referring to capital spend the other day , saying he could have found ten million . |
| 27 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 28 | This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added . |
| 29 | So , if you 'd been knitting , you would have knitted one way and slipped the other . |