Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 2 | For example then all of you do the inimitable NMTs and would 've lost a mark , the real thing is when you 've got a time clause stop , think and really focus on this meaning of the verb in the time clause , right ? |
| 3 | It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’ |
| 4 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 5 | ‘ But who would 've made the drawings ? ’ asked Betty . |
| 6 | And I mean , when , when that man was in her house do n't you think she would 've changed the locks or something ? |
| 7 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 8 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I would 've hired a pro , ’ Dwayne says . |
| 10 | What , would you say that would 've helped the growth of the economy even more ? |
| 11 | And I think in a way absolute equality would 've provided a problem in terms of both paving the way for industrialization because you would have created a subsistence economy and that would not have helped anybody . |
| 12 | On the contrary , it would 've seemed a very , very up to date , state of the art , kind of book . |
| 13 | If I could 've chosen I would 've got a girl more sophisticated , talk awhile , have a few drinks then screw . |
| 14 | I would 've , me brother and I would 've got a pub in erm excuse me asking these questions because it 's a bit vague , you know |
| 15 | I would 've got a black two eighty sleeper myself |
| 16 | I would 've picked a good one . ’ |
| 17 | Somebody would 've put a match to it and set it on fire , we would have got money for going to deal with it . |
| 18 | Mr James Barnet , house surgeon at Whipsnade zoo , said the level of stress being towed would inflict made the idea utterly impracticable . |
| 19 | This is precisely the sort of position one would expect given the combination of their respectable backgrounds , in almost all cases their membership of the Free Presbyterian Church , and their belief that the appeasement policies of the government and the Chief Constable have to be opposed publicly . |
| 20 | He added that Mr Major would have warned the Queen that she risked being dragged into a political storm . |
| 21 | With a normal take-off the glider would have cleared the obstruction . |
| 22 | Four Cabinet Ministers , on the advice of the Attorney-General , signed declarations in an attempt to keep from the court documents which would have cleared the men . |
| 23 | All the indications were that by the end of 1991 the Soviet economy would have registered a severe , possibility catastrophic deterioration . |
| 24 | The ace of clubs would have defeated the contract out of hand but East mysteriously returned a diamond . |
| 25 | After discreet soundings , they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence . |
| 26 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |
| 27 | The pressure on the welders would have involved a very high rejection rate — a problem overcome by robot welding . |
| 28 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 29 | In its original form , it would have involved a cost to the British taxpayer , to the Government and to employers of up to £500 million . |
| 30 | The other path that he might have followed would have involved a direct appeal to the French people to support his constitutional views . |