Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 2 | You 'd have imagined from all the interest on his face that I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection . |
| 3 | I do n't know if we 'd have worried about that if we 'd thought he 'd done a bunk . |
| 4 | At any other time I 'd have laughed at this innocent self-betrayal ; just now it did n't seem funny , only irritating . |
| 5 | if I 'd have known about that , if it goes , it goes and it do n't we should get something out of it . |
| 6 | they 'd have thought of that ! |
| 7 | So he said well if you 'd have come over this morning June you 'd have fainted ! |
| 8 | would 've struggled in that job . |
| 9 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 10 | If they had not had medical knowledge , their mental problems would have surfaced in some other form . |
| 11 | The legislation , which would have applied to some 50 per cent of US employees , had been passed by the House on May 10 and by the Senate on June 14 . |
| 12 | Still , it seems unlikely that all eight members of the harmonie rustique would have played for this number . |
| 13 | What disruption carefully organised and constantly renewed bomb attacks would have wreaked upon this communications ' artery ( i.e. the Voie Sacrée ) , crammed to the most extreme limits of its capacity , requires no details . |
| 14 | This is a compilation of mbaqanga music , very typical of the township jive you would have heard in any shebeen since the 1960s : lively , rollicking music with fluid , chattering guitars . |
| 15 | Rosalba would have twitched at such words , but Cati was so used to them , she only wavered because she was wondering how to give him her message , and she thought he was going to turn . |
| 16 | The Sergeant was a very good piper and would have gone on all night . |
| 17 | But who would have gone to such lengths to scare her , and why ? |
| 18 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 19 | If he had not been with them , he would have gone through that town quite safely . |
| 20 | Many less well-equipped ships would have gone through that interlink only at Firstlight speed , and then nervously — because of the horror tales of ships that slid through the wrong slots and were caught in endless loops round and round the interlink for centuries . |
| 21 | The onus is upon you to show that you have suffered loss and , if you have suffered no loss because your job would have ended in any event , there will be a nil award . |
| 22 | For perhaps three seconds guilt was all they did feel , the simple , shocked guilt they would have felt before any adult . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have felt like that to Danny , ’ said Rachel . |
| 24 | ‘ There are lots of women like me around that you would have felt like this about if you 'd met them . ’ |
| 25 | Many other top-ranked players , including Norman , would have buckled under such pressure but that statement epitomises the courage of the man . |
| 26 | So most of the electrons and antielectrons would have annihilated with each other to produce more photons , leaving only a few electrons left over . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Fokine insisted that most of Petrushka was danced mime , explaining that the dances performed in the fairground were the only real ones : ‘ These were not my own work as such crowds would have danced like that any way . |
| 28 | Clare Shearer , looking rather too much like the Principal Boy of the pantomime , gave an attractive performance as Cherubino — not quite as breathless and impetuous as I would have liked from this juvenile Don Giovanni — but it is very difficult to get used to hearing the immortal Non so piu cosa son sung in translation . |
| 29 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 30 | No sixteenth-century writer on the subject would have disagreed with any of this . |