Example sentences of "would have [verb] 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 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 3 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 6 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 7 | He 'd have to invent a new mode to reproduce what he 'd seen . |
| 8 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
| 9 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 12 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 15 | If I 'd known you did n't , I 'd have tried a different way … |
| 16 | Every now and then we 'd have to climb a huge wall , or jump a ditch , or crawl through a barrel . |
| 17 | If you were sleeping with me , I 'd have booked a double room . |
| 18 | She 'd have to charter a small plane . |
| 19 | Mathematically we can still be caught , but we 'd have to make a big mistake . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone . |
| 22 | To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever . |
| 23 | you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure |
| 24 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 25 | I 'd have got a nasty shock otherwise . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification . |
| 28 | I think you 'd have to get a professional carpet |
| 29 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 30 | 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 . |