Example sentences of "would have [verb] [art] [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 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 3 | I 'd have to take a few hundred and we might get one we both agree on . |
| 4 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 5 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 6 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 7 | He wondered if he 'd have made a good interior designer . |
| 8 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 11 | and I 'd have caused the other one to slow down . |
| 12 | If I was Wyatt Earp I 'd have shot the four of them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At one point it looked like we 'd have to restore the whole room . |
| 15 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 16 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 17 | I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars |
| 18 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |
| 19 | Sergeant says to her , ‘ If I 'd been there , I 'd have done the same . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure that in your place I 'd have done the same . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd have done the same . |
| 22 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 23 | I 'd have done the same myself . |
| 24 | He 'd have done the same in Cindy 's place . |
| 25 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Well , I could n't go in without him , so I 'd have to do the same . |
| 28 | Knew we 'd have to do the old ones , so I dug out all the figures of the last two years ’ productions . ’ |
| 29 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 30 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |