Example sentences of "would have make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 2 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 3 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 4 | He 'd have to make a better trap though . |
| 5 | Mathematically we can still be caught , but we 'd have to make a big mistake . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 7 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 8 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 9 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 10 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 11 | Sam would have made a perfect lawyer . |
| 12 | No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them . |
| 13 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 14 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 15 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 16 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
| 17 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
| 18 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 20 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
| 21 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 22 | ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection . |
| 23 | He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck . |
| 24 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
| 25 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
| 26 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 27 | Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia . |
| 28 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 29 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 30 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |