Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 2 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 3 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 4 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 5 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
| 6 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 7 | If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now . |
| 8 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
| 10 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 11 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 12 | If I 'd known you did n't , I 'd have tried a different way … |
| 13 | If you were sleeping with me , I 'd have booked a double room . |
| 14 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd have got a nasty shock otherwise . |
| 16 | The final sting in the tail , however , is that adding a decent keyboard to your Spectrum is , while adding to its usefulness , going to raise its price to a level where you 'd have got a decent keyboard included in the cost . |
| 17 | You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification . |
| 18 | A lot of people in those streets ( they were very poor , but they were very proud ) and on the steps leading up to the house , they 'd have laid a little piece of lino , three pieces or two . |
| 19 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 20 | After discreet soundings , they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence . |
| 21 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 22 | The other path that he might have followed would have involved a direct appeal to the French people to support his constitutional views . |
| 23 | The Haifa Bay route would have constituted a serious disruption as it passed overland through intensively developed urban and farming areas to the Jordan Valley , destroying property and agricultural land . |
| 24 | The presence of such ‘ advisers ’ would have constituted a severe infringement of China 's political autonomy . |
| 25 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 26 | He walked into a Ladbrokes betting shop at Hexham , Northumberland , six days later and demanded his winnings , unaware that the payout for the bet would have totalled a staggering £3,826,470,000,000,000 . |
| 27 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 28 | In short , the ration book would have become a national institution like the council house . |
| 29 | If the hon. Gentleman had participated in our debates in Committee , he would have heard a wide range of differing views and opinions expressed by the various parties in Northern Ireland — and , to some extent , by people within the same party . |
| 30 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |