Example sentences of "they would have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept them would have meant a complete recantation of all his actions over the past five years . |
| 2 | Yeah they 'd have said a drake otherwise . |
| 3 | I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster . |
| 4 | They 'd have made a fortune ! |
| 5 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 6 | A lot of people in those streets ( they were very poor , but they were very proud ) and on the steps leading up to the house , they 'd have laid a little piece of lino , three pieces or two . |
| 7 | ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’ |
| 8 | They 'd have had a lot . |
| 9 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 10 | Thirty five , but that includes the meal as well , they 'd have had a meal in the restaurant there wo n't you ? |
| 11 | If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else . |
| 12 | " They 'd have driven a stake through him . |
| 13 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
| 14 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 15 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ If the Labour group had followed our recommendations they would have gained a prestigious shopping development and made some money for the poll taxpayers into the bargain . ’ |
| 17 | If they managed to exact a sworn and written abrogation of the Act from every single proprietor in the strath ( and over into Tummel and down past Dunkeld ) , at least they would have built a paper wall round themselves . |
| 18 | The establishment of a welfare state and the state purchase of major industries would have been almost impossible in many other years of the twentieth century for they would have precipitated a sterling crisis as bankers and firms switched their assets out of sterling and into foreign currencies . |
| 19 | If the process could eventually be made catalytic , though , they would have lost a money-spinner. h |
| 20 | It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work . |
| 21 | The great mass of the people did not want revolution , or else they would have elected a Labour Government . |
| 22 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 23 | Do you really think they would have believed a story like that ? |
| 24 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 25 | Ramsey asked himself whether if the electors had been the university officers without the bishop they would have regarded a man of one book as electable . |
| 26 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 27 | Jack watched the Shepherds drag Ho down towards the little wood where no doubt they would have parked a car . |
| 28 | To compel a referendum they would have needed a minimum of 581,069 votes ( a quarter of the electorate ) , but only 458,818 people actually voted . |
| 29 | At one level , they would have supplied a range of services and facilities for a resident agricultural population and for travellers on the roads and rivers ; at another , they would have provided periodic or permanent markets for the surrounding countryside in exchange for agricultural products . |
| 30 | Uderzo says they preferred not to film in America : ‘ They would have had a very different idea of how to approach the jokes . |