Example sentences of "would [vb infin] made [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things .
2 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 . ’
3 It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it .
4 Sam would have made a perfect lawyer .
5 No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them .
6 Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 .
7 He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist .
8 She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung .
9 He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier .
10 No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it …
11 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 .
12 ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’
13 This would have made a fascinating court case .
14 ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection .
15 He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck .
16 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 .
17 Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier .
18 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 .
19 Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 If it did act , it would have made a jurisdictional error and its decision would be a nullity .
23 That much is clear from the standard of his labels ; he would have made a poor museum curator !
24 His last words would have made a fine song title .
25 The Leonardo drawings alone would have made a fine exhibition , although not one to fill the entire first floor of Palazzo Grassi .
26 ‘ Durham would have made a beautiful model , but the city below the viaduct was a daunting prospect , ’ said Richard .
27 Emitting a stink that would have made a Tyryttiaki swamp mist seem fragrant .
28 Somehow containing her fury , she flashed him a smile that would have made a lesser man shrivel .
29 Luke Calder sat down on the settee , pulling Fran down next to him as he favoured her with a smile that would have made a lesser woman fall in a grateful little heap at his feet .
30 ‘ Many young women would have made a different choice , ’ he answered .
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