Example sentences of "they would have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 2 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 3 | have there been , to its knowledge , rights exercisable by or on behalf of two or more limited undertakings which if exercisable by one of them would have made the company a subsidiary of it , nor |
| 4 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 5 | He did n't know their long-term histories , but each one of them would have had the break far back , hooked into it , started climbing . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 7 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 8 | Yeah they 'd have said a drake otherwise . |
| 9 | I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster . |
| 10 | They 'd have registered the fact that I work for an advertising agency , and marked me accordingly : ‘ I do think essentially he 's a popular artist , do n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 12 | You know , like they 'd have to put a bit of a twist in it I suppose . |
| 13 | They 'd have made a fortune ! |
| 14 | And er they thought Thursday they 'd have to do an operation on her by taking a piece of bone from her hip , |
| 15 | Well I think more than anything if they 'd have seen the state she was in after she 'd had this |
| 16 | And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy . |
| 17 | If Man United 's real keeper was half as good they 'd have walked the league . |
| 18 | They might at present be choosing to hold their fire , but that did n't mean they 'd have thrown the communication into their wastepaper baskets . |
| 19 | You 'd think after that one they 'd have thrown the keys away for that . |
| 20 | They 'd have had a lot . |
| 21 | Thirty five , but that includes the meal as well , they 'd have had a meal in the restaurant there wo n't you ? |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 24 | They did n't want his help , each one told him straight , because by the time he was briefed into what they were working on , then he would be away and they 'd have wasted the classroom time . |
| 25 | If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else . |
| 26 | " They 'd have driven a stake through him . |
| 27 | But if they had a doctor you see , they 'd have to pay a pound . |
| 28 | Yes , they were appointed by the County Council so I sup and er I , I rather think that they , we never got paid but I rather think th they 'd have to pay the Council something for the midwife 's services . |
| 29 | They 'd have to walk the road in both directions , and it would take them some time . |
| 30 | With that spirit and her inventive brain , she should have been a boy , and together they would have run the world . |