Example sentences of "would have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
2 | He wondered if he 'd have made a good interior designer . |
3 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
8 | He 'd have to invent a new mode to reproduce what he 'd seen . |
9 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
10 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
13 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
16 | If I 'd known you did n't , I 'd have tried a different way … |
17 | Be a radical depar we 'd have to learn an awful lot about what it really meant . |
18 | Every now and then we 'd have to climb a huge wall , or jump a ditch , or crawl through a barrel . |
19 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
20 | If you were sleeping with me , I 'd have booked a double room . |
21 | She 'd have to charter a small plane . |
22 | Mathematically we can still be caught , but we 'd have to make a big mistake . |
23 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
24 | 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 ? |
25 | She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure |
28 | 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 . |
29 | I 'd have got a nasty shock otherwise . |
30 | The final sting in the tail , however , is that adding a decent keyboard to your Spectrum is , while adding to its usefulness , going to raise its price to a level where you 'd have got a decent keyboard included in the cost . |