Example sentences of "would [adv] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said I 'd rather have had two tins of vegetable soup , he said with a nice pot of potatoes . |
| 2 | He 'd rather have had warm feet at that moment . |
| 3 | She said she 'd rather have had some lilac bathsalts , the sort that crumpled to silk in the water . |
| 4 | No , well you 'd only have to , you 'd only have to take one board up maybe two . |
| 5 | You 'd only have to take two boards up out of the lot . |
| 6 | She 'd probably have slapped another man 's face for that , she realised wearily — either that or lobbed back a playfully witty rejoinder . |
| 7 | He 'd probably have admitted any of the local police whom he personally knew , particularly if it were a detective concerned with a recent case . |
| 8 | It was just a pity , he thought , that he 'd now have to sit tight here , while his men were facing the enemy . |
| 9 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 10 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |
| 11 | She 'd never have waited this long . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd never have done this if your grandfather had been alive ! ’ |
| 13 | I 'd never have guessed that . |
| 14 | This , if not mere coincidence , may be some strange legacy , for our heroine is — you 'd never have guessed this one — really an aristocratic heiress who was given at birth to a gypsy family . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd never have got such a bargain on my own , ’ he said . |
| 16 | You see , he is adaptable , and has managed to fill his days and pay his way by having a go at a variety of jobs that he 'd never have contemplated three or four years ago . |
| 17 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 18 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 19 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 20 | I too would gladly have exercised these master-skills , but there was one essential ingredient I lacked : Charlie 's strong will and his massively forceful desire to possess whatever it was that took his fancy . |
| 21 | Indeed , in most cases for most injuries , anybody would say " I would rather have avoided this injury than have any amount of money whatever in compensation " . |
| 22 | Before that , however , periods of extension during the Permian and Mesozoic would presumably have rendered this sealing mechanism inoperative . |
| 23 | ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent . |
| 24 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 25 | It seemed to Marie that people would only have to take one look at her to see that she did n't belong in these surroundings . |
| 26 | Ellwood reasoned that the women would only have felt curious if Annie was driving on the mirror : clearly , she was n't . |
| 27 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 28 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 29 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 30 | ‘ I am receiving treatment at the Lister Hospital in London and any women who would be willing to donate eggs would only have to make two trips down there . |