Example sentences of "he would have had a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better .
2 In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands …
3 Today he would have had a tape recorder : did he , like Dickens , at least have shorthand , a not unknown writerly aid since Cicero 's time ?
4 A year , ago he would have had a junior to carry that lot . ’
5 and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC .
6 In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’
7 His name would probably have been ‘ Shiney ’ or ‘ Stainey ’ and he would have had an apron that was so stiff with shellac that it stood up on its own .
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