Example sentences of "that [pers pn] would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 2 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 3 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 4 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 5 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 6 | This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems . |
| 7 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 8 | I had got so used to the straight criss-crossing North-South , East-West roads of most American cities that I would have to acquire a taste for the more complex and possibly much more fascinating spread of London lanes . |
| 9 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 11 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 12 | After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out . |
| 13 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 14 | I am sure that I would have got on with both men , famously well . |
| 15 | I discover that I would have to put on nearly three stone to be anywhere near what they weigh , and what I think must be normal . |
| 16 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 17 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 18 | I may say that we both agreed that our relations will be governed by his decision , that I would have gone along with it had he made a mistake which harmed me . |
| 19 | When I joined the NCT , like most members , I did so because I wanted the best antenatal classes possible and it seemed that I would have the chance to meet new mothers and make new friends after the birth too . |
| 20 | To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question . |
| 21 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 22 | I now knew that I would have to put the wheelbarrow back on the road next morning , despite a relative abundance of settlements . |
| 23 | I switched off the tape , realizing that I would have to listen another time to find out what the preacher was really saying . |
| 24 | I was contemplating going back to Reggane , but if the map was wrong , then that would mean that I would have to walk back this way . |
| 25 | M. B. I am quite candidly of the opinion that I would have left the police out of a feeling of resentment because I was overlooked time and time again for inferior men . |
| 26 | My plan assumed that I would have to work for these by actively seeking ideas . |
| 27 | He also said that I would have to become dedicated , my lifestyle would have to change and , most importantly , that I must set my sights high . |
| 28 | And then I was thirty , and I thought that I would have to start specialising or it would be too late … ’ . |
| 29 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 30 | My own misgivings are confined to the sobering thought that I would have so little to offer , either in products or services . |