Example sentences of "would have [verb] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 2 | If she had wanted to stay she 'd have made a song and dance , but it was better to move . |
| 3 | But now you 'll never know whether he 'd have made a move or not , will you ? |
| 4 | I 'd have liked a job but you could n't , because the men had to be looked after , you just had to be there . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd have had a visit if she 'd gone straight to the nearest phone , ’ Goldman observed . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , there are times , because certain guitars do n't have a wangy bar , that you get a great solo for most of the song and right at the end you want to maybe slide down and you ca n't do it , so you 'd have to find a guitar that would do that , and then blend it in . ’ |
| 7 | And keeping it straight , you 'd have to have a jig or something to keep it in |
| 8 | When I was told that I 'd have to share a kitchen and bathroom with strangers I could n't help thinking how this would astound the people at home , how they would snort with laughter at the idea that this could really happen in England , mother of civilization . |
| 9 | I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies . |
| 10 | If you got sued for selling someone a rotten second-hand car , you 'd have to get a lawyer and he 'd be a university graduate , too . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd thought we were going on a lecture tour , I 'd have brought a notepad and a lunchbox . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " If I 'd wanted to spend over five hours on the golf course I would have become a greenkeeper and not a professional golfer . " |
| 14 | By then the office would be busy and they would have to contrive a meeting where they would be unobserved . |
| 15 | Lord Justice Dillon disagreed and said he would have granted a declaration that the UK was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty of Rome and European law . |
| 16 | adventure was probably enough that erm I would have flown a kite and one or two things otherwise ! |
| 17 | Had Norman Lamont been making his speech to the Commons 100 years ago , he would have worn a hat and commentators would have expected a rabbit to have been produced from it . |
| 18 | He , of course , would have to take a glass or two , enough to make him moderately sick , but that would be a small price to pay for finishing off Elinor , not to mention Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet and Nazi Who Escaped justice at Nuremberg . |
| 19 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 20 | " He would have made a fortune if . " |
| 21 | Mrs Gotobed would have made a Will and Hepzibah and Mister Johnny would be safe in Druid 's Bottom for ever and ever … |
| 22 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 23 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 24 | Well fine , but I 'm curious to wonder if the man himself would have endorsed a guitar that he could n't then go out and buy ! ! |
| 25 | On the south side of the town , just north of the bridge crossing the Tyne , a constriction in Dere Street has been noted , of the same width as between the foundations at the north gate ; the length of the ‘ constriction ’ would have accommodated a wall and bank of nearly similar dimensions to that observed on the north side of the town . |
| 26 | Otherwise , he told himself , he would have suggested a dance and gradually manoeuvred her closer to him until nature took its course . |
| 27 | — that in Newham each such client cost £92 a week less in the community , and in Ipswich £108 less ( even with Home Support Project input ) than in an institution , assuming that two-thirds of the clients would have entered a hospital and one-third residential accommodation ( see Table 3.5 ) . |
| 28 | Certainly the industry must have encouraged the growth of local villas and houses exploiting the potential of their agricultural resources to the full , while the town in its turn would have provided a workforce and essential access to the necessary marketing facilities . |
| 29 | That alone would have lasted a week and been enough to take in and remember . |
| 30 | For surely back in Port Talbot a smart young man would have looked a notch or two up the ring-ridden ladder of class and hauled himself up — in his pride — one or two places . |