Example sentences of "he would [verb] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better .
2 Oh well he said he he said he 'd have to have a look at it did n't he ?
3 He 'd have to have a licence to have pheasants .
4 He 'd like to have a go at that .
5 He would tend to have a number of lowly women on his books living in the locality whom he could call upon at short notice to attend — the Mrs Gamps of this world .
6 I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions .
7 One day a messenger came from the great city more than half a day 's journey away across the river , to say that the great king had decided that he would like to have a wife .
8 Knowing the Prince played the cello , the professor asked whether he would like to have a go .
9 He said : ‘ They told me that the worst case scenario was that his brain would swell and he would have to have an operation .
10 In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands …
11 Today he would have had a tape recorder : did he , like Dickens , at least have shorthand , a not unknown writerly aid since Cicero 's time ?
12 A year , ago he would have had a junior to carry that lot . ’
13 and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC .
14 In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’
15 His name would probably have been ‘ Shiney ’ or ‘ Stainey ’ and he would have had an apron that was so stiff with shellac that it stood up on its own .
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