Example sentences of "they would have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah they 'd have said a drake otherwise .
2 I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster .
3 You know , like they 'd have to put a bit of a twist in it I suppose .
4 They 'd have made a fortune !
5 And er they thought Thursday they 'd have to do an operation on her by taking a piece of bone from her hip ,
6 They 'd have had a lot .
7 Thirty five , but that includes the meal as well , they 'd have had a meal in the restaurant there wo n't you ?
8 ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’
9 If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else .
10 " They 'd have driven a stake through him .
11 But if they had a doctor you see , they 'd have to pay a pound .
12 If they managed to exact a sworn and written abrogation of the Act from every single proprietor in the strath ( and over into Tummel and down past Dunkeld ) , at least they would have built a paper wall round themselves .
13 The establishment of a welfare state and the state purchase of major industries would have been almost impossible in many other years of the twentieth century for they would have precipitated a sterling crisis as bankers and firms switched their assets out of sterling and into foreign currencies .
14 Those preferring to have them collected , or to take or send them individually , were mostly older people , and people in lower socio-economic groups , and people who — when they were talking about being so short of money that they would have to arrange a loan — thought in terms of a relatively small amount of money .
15 The procession takes place whatever the weather but Mr Cecil Hitch thought one year they would have to call a halt because of the terrible conditions .
16 By then the office would be busy and they would have to contrive a meeting where they would be unobserved .
17 It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead .
18 Do you really think they would have believed a story like that ?
19 Ramsey asked himself whether if the electors had been the university officers without the bishop they would have regarded a man of one book as electable .
20 Jack watched the Shepherds drag Ho down towards the little wood where no doubt they would have parked a car .
21 To compel a referendum they would have needed a minimum of 581,069 votes ( a quarter of the electorate ) , but only 458,818 people actually voted .
22 At one level , they would have supplied a range of services and facilities for a resident agricultural population and for travellers on the roads and rivers ; at another , they would have provided periodic or permanent markets for the surrounding countryside in exchange for agricultural products .
23 Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did .
24 They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God .
25 But those involved in entente floral feel at least they would have had a fighting chance of clinching the title .
26 The question is whether the eleven member states could amend the existing legislation or whether they would have to adopt a parallel , but separate , legislation .
27 So West Indies won by an innings and 156 runs ; yet had England managed to hold on for just another three or four minutes they would have got a draw , for the heavens opened and further play would have been impossible .
28 I was sep separate and apart from that , they would have to have a operating room and a dispensary there , you see that 's what they would have to have , I mean , if there gon na have P D S A premises , this is what you 've got to have , cos very often the animal has to be put under and all sorts of things , you know what I mean , it would n't be just an office with say like a physician and a tenants , it would be a case of a , a surgery and things in that nature which would be required by , er quite a number of animals .
29 Those clamps had to be locked at the Air Force base where they were loaded So they would have to have a key there .
30 They found the bridge , when they arrived there , to be all that they would have expected a bridge on such a yacht to be , with a plethora of expensive and largely unnecessary navigational aids , but in all respects perfectly innocuous .
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