Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Jocularly ) Well , I 'd have a good look at your coins for a start ! |
| 2 | Then I 'd have a good blast when I got home , like . |
| 3 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 4 | Or trying to , but I 'd have a great deal more chance of success if people did n't keep trying to drag the whole sordid mess out into the open . |
| 5 | I 'd have a better tan than her at this rate , all the outdoor living I was doing . |
| 6 | If I was The John Dyson , do n't you think I 'd have a better chance of getting theatre seats ? |
| 7 | If I could have summat to eat , I 'd have a big bowl of oxtail soup — all hot and steamy . |
| 8 | ‘ If I could n't read and write , mam , I 'd have a hard job running my boot and shoe round , would n't I ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'd have a hard job trying to find the sort of excitement you 're referring to here , around Loch Lomond . ’ |
| 10 | As far as I remembered from our arrival , the boatyard lay down a lane with no houses nearby : I 'd have a fair run in my socks to find help . |
| 11 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 12 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 13 | I was in two minds about closing the door , but decided that it would be safer to do so ; if anyone came through it unexpectedly I would have a split second to look lost and nonchalant . |
| 14 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 15 | He himself had gone to University College , Oxford , so he thought I should apply there , because I would have a greater chance of getting in . |
| 16 | And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly . |
| 17 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 18 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 19 | If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal . |
| 20 | At least there the floor would be still , and she would n't be feeling so horribly queasy , and she 'd have a dry bed . |
| 21 | Then last night she said she would n't come tonight because there was nothing on — she 'd have a quiet night in her room . |
| 22 | so she 's er , she 's waiting for 'em to come to do that , anyway she 's er , somebody rang her did n't they and they asked her if she 'd have a little boy of four months old , Thursdays and Fridays all day and she started this week with him , so I said well Pauline |
| 23 | ‘ I thought she 'd have a rougher time than she did , unlike some team members who were like bulls at a gate . |
| 24 | Well , if the norm in the Church was the Bishop and Miss Tilley , you could see she 'd have a fair amount of concealing to do . |
| 25 | ‘ If this property boom suddenly collapses , or if the government decides to jack up the bank rate to curb consumer spending , then you might find your loans withdrawn , in which case you 'd have a serious cash-flow problem on your hands . ’ |
| 26 | I should have guessed you 'd have a legitimate business . |
| 27 | It got to the point where you could have one musical act , then you 'd have a puppeteering act , all on a Sunday night under the guise of the Beckenham folk club . |
| 28 | ‘ Just so that you 'd have a good excuse for keeping me a prisoner here ? ’ |
| 29 | Also , you 'd have a built-in baby-sitter . ’ |
| 30 | Du n no , well you ca n't talk all the time you 'd have a sore throat would n't you ? |