Example sentences of "they would have [vb pp] 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 | They 'd have made a fortune ! |
| 4 | They 'd have had a lot . |
| 5 | Thirty five , but that includes the meal as well , they 'd have had a meal in the restaurant there wo n't you ? |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else . |
| 8 | " They 'd have driven a stake through him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 12 | Do you really think they would have believed a story like that ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jack watched the Shepherds drag Ho down towards the little wood where no doubt they would have parked a car . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God . |
| 19 | But those involved in entente floral feel at least they would have had a fighting chance of clinching the title . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |