Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was Sam , I 'd want to achieve a better car , ’ Jazz said . |
| 2 | I 'd vote for anyone who 'd promise to provide a good road link between Hereford and the motorway . |
| 3 | I 'd like to have a good head on me . |
| 4 | Sometimes they 'd , they 'd try taking a good dose of Epsom Salts to see if that would start things you know but er there was very little , very little they could do . |
| 5 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 6 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 7 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 8 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 9 | He 'd have to make a better trap though . |
| 10 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 11 | If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success . |
| 12 | Therefore XY Ltd would appear to have a good title to the goods one way or another . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 15 | He would have liked a good cigar . ’ |
| 16 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
| 17 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
| 18 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 19 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 20 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 21 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 22 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 23 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
| 24 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 29 | If the title to the land had not been registered , the title of the daughter would , at worst , have been voidable , not void ; and under general principles of equity , mortgagees from the daughter in good faith and for value , without notice of the facts giving rise to the voidability , would have acquired a good title to their mortgages . |
| 30 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |