Example sentences of "would have [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was
2 I 'd 've loved to have been in there and gone mad pull all them windows out and put all nice new wee windows in .
3 To Culley , he said , ‘ Well , I 'd 've wanted to know that too , I guess . ’
4 Yes and you 'd 've had to have cancelled anyway would n't you ?
5 because it 'd mean I 'd have to go to bank of and , and this borough and
6 Erm but of course to provide erm electricity on a larger scale , you ca n't put these things too close together , you need about er a thousand of those to , for example , to replace say a power station like Didcot and er and a thousand of these windmills would o occupy about three hundred square miles , and this is what three hundred square miles looks like er it 's , it 's the major part of , of central L you would n't put them in central London of course but erm gives you some idea of the sort of area you 'd have to devote to wind farms if you were to use this particular type of er of energy .
7 If I 'd have wanted to go
8 If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter .
9 If he 'd left it Mrs Blakey would have made a fuss , she 'd have wanted to take his temperature , she 'd have asked questions he could n't answer .
10 ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself .
11 I did n't wan na go the hospital 'cos they 'd have wanted to know how I did it and I would have had to turkey in there .
12 Germon said , ‘ Obviously we 'd have wanted to get back to continue if we 'd been in ( ND skipper ) David White 's shoes . ’
13 No , no it was very much a green field area , and I think if they 'd have wanted to get bomb anywhere they 'd have been directed at Castle Bromwich , which were very much they were building Lancasters and Sterlings and they were very much the heart of the British bomber industry .
14 She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it .
15 I 'd have wanted to run there at once .
16 I 'd have wanted to wipe you out — forget all about you , too . ’
17 The papers are his business — not that he 'd have wanted to start a fire . ’
18 I do n't think he 'd have wanted to jump off a cliff or anything , but I think it bothered him — you know , the weight gain and things like that . ’
19 I 'd have hated to have spoiled their fun . ’
20 He 'd have loved to see you . ’
21 ‘ And I 'd have loved to see him .
22 I 'd have loved to play there .
23 I 'd have loved to have built a 10-year career around him , but I fully understand his reasons for going .
24 I 'd have loved to have seen a database import facility in the software .
25 I was a bit disappointed to hear this , I 'd have loved to have heard him say ( on a channel largely watched by scum ) ‘ I only ever wanted to play for Leeds ’ .
26 I 'd have loved to have thanked him personally , but we have to respect his wish to remain anonymous .
27 ‘ I 'd have loved to have seen her in the flesh .
28 Well it , ah well , of course the other thing you 'd have to do to do that is put a top
29 If anybody finds out who should n't , they 'd have to kill to keep them silent . ’
30 If I tell you a story you 'd have to agree to tell it to somebody else .
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