Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 2 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 3 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 4 | Many other countries would have grabbed at the straw , but with Johnson virtually admitting guilt , the SFA representatives were unwilling to appeal . |
| 5 | Schemes such as the furniture stores would have operated at a much more modest level whereas now they are the main providers of this service in the city . |
| 6 | It had been delivered as she paid her daily visit to the Casa Guidi or otherwise would have languished at the post office , returned as unclaimed . |
| 7 | Anyone would have felt at a disadvantage in such a situation . |
| 8 | Noodle or Blueboobs would have flown at the kid to avenge Crackpot . |
| 9 | For then , not a soul moved amongst the decay and no-one would have paused at the spot for long . |
| 10 | Many of the girls who had been in her class at school , had they been told about it , would have scoffed at the coyness and naïvety of Marie 's fantasy . |
| 11 | FINALLY : Those who feel there is too much cricket would have winced at the suggestion made by the Australian authorities , who proposed that series against England be expanded from five Tests to seven to assist the finances of their domestic game . |
| 12 | How Crapper 's eyes would have gleamed at the sight of a pampas plug-flush , low-level siphonic . |
| 13 | Many pre-Keynesian quantity theorists — most notably Irving Fisher — would have shuddered at the prospect of a prolonged bout of price deflation : the financial system might not be able to bear the strain . |
| 14 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 15 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 16 | So when the proverbial shit had hit the fan in Whitehall , Connors , or somebody like him , would have drawled at the emergency conference . |
| 17 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 18 | During the long periods between revaluations , distortions in the relative valuations of different properties occurred and , of course , new property had to be valued at the notional figure that would have obtained at the date of the previous revaluation . |
| 19 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 20 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 21 | And anyway , most girls would have jumped at the chance of lameducking them . |
| 22 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 23 | Not that it was much of a one then : discovery would have meant at the most punishment and a diatribe against immigrants generally , with the chief worry , what contagion she might have picked up . |
| 24 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |
| 25 | But she would have woken at the sound of an engine . |
| 26 | She was ambitious , and I liked that — but if we 'd been married her ambitions and mine would have clashed at every turn . ’ |
| 27 | The hammered coin finds do not indicate the same form of activity that would have occurred at the time the weights would have been lost so two different forms of activity must have taken place . |
| 28 | Claudia would have shrivelled at the note in Roman 's voice , but Dana only laughed and put her hand on his arm . |
| 29 | The young stonemason had suffered terrible head injuries and but for the attentions of a passing doctor , would have died at the scene of the accident . |
| 30 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |