Example sentences of "would have done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans . |
| 2 | So how confident are you that potential adversaries will not have the capability in two thousand and twenty to make a mess of our runways as the Soviets would have done during the er the cold war ? |
| 3 | Her make-up she had purposely applied slightly more heavily than she would have done during the day , silver-grey shadow adding emphasis to her eyes , a touch of blusher for her cheeks , lipstick . |
| 4 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 5 | She watched the keys fall , noting that they fell more slowly than they would have done on the Earth . |
| 6 | After the door shut behind him , she sat looking at it , wondering what she would have done over the years without him . |
| 7 | What Leapor would have done with the money can be surmised . |
| 8 | He had half-expected Caterina to fail to turn up , and he was n't sure what he would have done with the girl if she had come . |
| 9 | So that 's what you would have done with the corn The hay was the hay the stalk ? |
| 10 | ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day . |
| 11 | She looked on it , without telling him , as a way of exercising her voice , practising her breathing as she would have done for the stage . |
| 12 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 13 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 14 | It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s . |
| 15 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 16 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 17 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 18 | The real problem is that there are situations where negative pecuniary externalities exist , and this means that co-operative R&D ventures may end up doing less R&D than independent firms would have done in the same setting . |
| 19 | To take one of the most outstanding examples mentioned by Bob Bocock in one of his books , I forget which one it is now , but in one of his books , Bob Bocock er , mentions that the doyen of mid-twentieth century sociology , Talker Parsons , who some of you perhaps may never of heard of , but er , you certainly would have done in the sixties and seventies , because he really was the major fi figure in Anglo-American social theory . |
| 20 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 21 | Capt Forgrave , 27 , of Wrexham , said yesterday : ‘ I was only doing what anyone would have done in the circumstances . |
| 22 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 23 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 24 | This time d'Aubigny waited and would have done till the Second Coming . |
| 25 | Some alienation provisions contain surrender-back clauses which should be strongly resisted by the tenant , as they lead to uncertainty as to whether the tenant will be permitted to assign the lease to the person of its choosing , and unless carefully worded could result in the tenant obtaining less from the landlord on surrender than it would have done from the assignee . |