Example sentences of "would have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 2 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 3 | These plants contain only minimal amounts of the chemical — tetrahydro-cannabinol — which can make users high when smoked — so to get any kind of effect — you 'd have to smoke the whole field . |
| 4 | and I 'd have caused the other one to slow down . |
| 5 | Then Paul Weller formed a group with the extraordinarily hopeless name of The Paul Weller Movement ( for someone so fascinated by Englishness , you 'd think he 'd have noticed the national Jokes About Bowels obsession ) , started performing Jam songs and left Polydor . |
| 6 | At one point it looked like we 'd have to restore the whole room . |
| 7 | It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens |
| 8 | Knew we 'd have to do the old ones , so I dug out all the figures of the last two years ’ productions . ’ |
| 9 | So you see you you 'd have gone the wrong place would n't you if you 'd followed what |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I 'd have to comb the whole town for you , ’ he began jovially , coming forward . |
| 11 | Well no , you 'd have to alter the other one as well would n't you , to make it e even |
| 12 | ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York . |
| 13 | And I mean if she got this job she 'd have to pay the full amount , if she 's on Income Support you do n't do you ? |
| 14 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 15 | Fact , for two pins I 'd have taken the joint out of the oven and put me 'ead in instead . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 17 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I mean that yesterday afternoon you 'd have thought the bloody things were in here would n't |
| 20 | ‘ Who 'd have thought the old bugger would come to life like that ! ’ she said to Nutty afterwards . |
| 21 | He 'd have to hide the whole arrangement , wastebin and all . |
| 22 | And you 'd have got the appropriate information |
| 23 | We 'd have to get the bloody books out if I was here . |
| 24 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 25 | The project would have involved the clear-felling of 800,000 hectares of tropical forest and its replacement by eucalyptus plantations . |
| 26 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 27 | If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market . |
| 28 | If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market . |
| 29 | These bronze fastenings protrude through the keel and would have secured the main station frames of the hull . |
| 30 | The attentive listener present at the English coronation of Henry VI in 1429 would have heard the young king being exhorted to avenge injustices ( ‘ ulciscaris iniusta ’ ) and to be ‘ the powerful defender of his country … triumphant over the enemy ’ ( ‘ sit fortissimus protector patrie … triumphator hostium ’ ) . |