Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] it [art] " in BNC.

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1 if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today !
2 To a man , of course , we 'd have considered it an enormous privilege to have met our maker while in the presence of a man who , as the greatest Olympian , is something of a sporting god .
3 As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star .
4 She would have said it a third , even a fourth time , but he sealed her mouth with his own , possessing its sweetness with a plunderer 's purpose .
5 Many a player would have called it a day then ; not Audley .
6 Mediaeval theologians would have called it an incubus : racing was Jackie 's devil , his familiar , and it had to be cut out , exorcized .
7 The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 .
8 Neil Foster of Essex would have made it a year ago after his spectacular haul of 106 wickets and remembering his superb bowling when he produced the performance of his life as the Test bowling hero of Madras under Gower 's leadership .
9 I guess , if he 'd known , Osvaldo would have made it a priority to kill them all .
10 Pretty , dramatic Suzie , who could twist the younger members of the male sex round her beautifully manicured fingers , would have made it a point of honour to test her feminine power over Svend .
11 If the Institute had been a private company preparing for flotation at the end of 1992 , then its operating surplus of over £600,000 on a turnover of above £8m would have made it a very attractive investment .
12 Another penny would have made it a tidy
13 Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover .
14 We , for our part , would have put it the other way , by expressing appreciation to the people from other churches both for their ready and effective response to our request for help and for the way they enlivened our company .
15 Maradona is not the player he was and Gazza would have found it a lot tougher facing him at the height of his powers in the Eighties when Argentina won the World Cup .
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