Example sentences of "they would have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else .
2 Yeah they 'd have said a drake otherwise .
3 I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster .
4 They 'd have registered the fact that I work for an advertising agency , and marked me accordingly : ‘ I do think essentially he 's a popular artist , do n't you ? ’
5 It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number .
6 You know , like they 'd have to put a bit of a twist in it I suppose .
7 They 'd have made a fortune !
8 And er they thought Thursday they 'd have to do an operation on her by taking a piece of bone from her hip ,
9 Well I think more than anything if they 'd have seen the state she was in after she 'd had this
10 And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy .
11 If Man United 's real keeper was half as good they 'd have walked the league .
12 They might at present be choosing to hold their fire , but that did n't mean they 'd have thrown the communication into their wastepaper baskets .
13 You 'd think after that one they 'd have thrown the keys away for that .
14 They 'd have had a lot .
15 Thirty five , but that includes the meal as well , they 'd have had a meal in the restaurant there wo n't you ?
16 ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’
17 No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that .
18 They did n't want his help , each one told him straight , because by the time he was briefed into what they were working on , then he would be away and they 'd have wasted the classroom time .
19 If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else .
20 " They 'd have driven a stake through him .
21 But if they had a doctor you see , they 'd have to pay a pound .
22 Yes , they were appointed by the County Council so I sup and er I , I rather think that they , we never got paid but I rather think th they 'd have to pay the Council something for the midwife 's services .
23 They 'd have to walk the road in both directions , and it would take them some time .
24 With that spirit and her inventive brain , she should have been a boy , and together they would have run the world .
25 But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand .
26 Some teachers said that they would have completed the questionnaire had they been asked to do so anonymously .
27 If they had given the matter any thought , however , and some incident had alerted them to the dangers of being too relaxed , there was no doubt they would have strained every muscle to elude the worst poverty .
28 Those behind the Feb. 3-4 coup attempt [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , he said , followed a " totalitarian and extremist ideology " ; they would have prevented the holding of the local elections due later in the year , and would have introduced a period of " silence and persecution " .
29 To do this , they would have to examine the parts in relation to each other since they work together to maintain the organism .
30 If they managed to exact a sworn and written abrogation of the Act from every single proprietor in the strath ( and over into Tummel and down past Dunkeld ) , at least they would have built a paper wall round themselves .
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