Example sentences of "i would have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then I 'd have a good blast when I got home , like .
2 ( Jocularly ) Well , I 'd have a good look at your coins for a start !
3 She said I 'd have a real good time here — playing sports and sleeping in the dorm with all the other boys .
4 But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … .
5 Or trying to , but I 'd have a great deal more chance of success if people did n't keep trying to drag the whole sordid mess out into the open .
6 If I could have summat to eat , I 'd have a big bowl of oxtail soup — all hot and steamy .
7 ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work .
8 ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work .
9 ‘ If I could n't read and write , mam , I 'd have a hard job running my boot and shoe round , would n't I ? ’
10 ‘ I think I 'd have a hard job trying to find the sort of excitement you 're referring to here , around Loch Lomond . ’
11 As far as I remembered from our arrival , the boatyard lay down a lane with no houses nearby : I 'd have a fair run in my socks to find help .
12 Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist .
13 I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape .
14 I was in two minds about closing the door , but decided that it would be safer to do so ; if anyone came through it unexpectedly I would have a split second to look lost and nonchalant .
15 I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended .
16 And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly .
17 Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector .
18 And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work .
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