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

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1 Northerners come across as slightly more chauvinistic : they 'd prefer to have a male bus driver or doctor .
2 Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ?
3 ‘ But , Emma , I wonder if you 'd mind having a quick business discussion with me before things get out of hand ? ’
4 And he added , ‘ Ah 'd like to have a wee chat with those two , find out a bit more about them .
5 I 'd like to have a long talk to you about her . ’
6 I 'd like to have a good head on me .
7 They closed into a scrum and after much teeth-sucking and muttering announced that they 'd like to have a new biopsy performed on the splendid , raised node on my thigh .
8 On some of these P O A's if there 's a big potential , I 'd like to have a dummy net list .
9 I 'd like to have a proper team together right from the start . ’
10 Sit down , my dear , I 'd like to have a little chat with you .
11 I 'd like to have a little talk with you . ’
12 Erm if you 'd like to have a quick glance through them .
13 It sounds nonsense to me , but I 'd like to have a brief resume of the affair to hand , just in case there 's a sudden panic at Number Ten . ’
14 I end up wanting to look thinner ; I 'd like to have a big nose because I am fed up with people telling me mine is ‘ cute' ; I 'd like to have naturally dark eyebrows and eyelashes , so I would n't look like a heroin addict without any make-up on ; straighter teeth , no spots and a better haircut .
15 oh dear oh dear , I 'd hate to have a broken jaw Now what you gon na do ?
16 Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction
17 If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now .
18 Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her .
19 ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now .
20 He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son .
21 ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’
22 it wo n't , you know if it wo n't cos we 'd have to have a new one then would n't we ?
23 She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone .
24 To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever .
25 you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure
26 And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold .
27 Because if they went back they 'd have to have the electric chair and they do n't want the electric chair or the , cos that 's what they think cos they 've done so much .
28 I 'd love to have a professional
29 I 'd love to have a beautiful garden one day , she thought idly .
30 ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said .
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