Example sentences of "would [verb] [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 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 3 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 4 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 8 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
| 9 | The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable . |
| 10 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 11 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 12 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 13 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 16 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 20 | If I 'd known you did n't , I 'd have tried a different way … |
| 21 | If you were sleeping with me , I 'd have booked a double room . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd have got a nasty shock otherwise . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | After discreet soundings , they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence . |