Example sentences of "would [vb infin] do [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who would want to do a thing like that ? ’ |
| 2 | Taylor , of course , would need to do a deal with his Williams-Renault team and a little matter of around £8million would perhaps secure his services — he would guarantee to put Taylor 's men in pole position ! |
| 3 | And now this time we would like to do a vehicle check with you when we before we go out . |
| 4 | That 's why I would like to do a group assessment erm but yes long term |
| 5 | Next he would like to do the Mozart violin sonatas , he says , but he will wait until what he calls ‘ the Mozart frenzy ’ abates . |
| 6 | now do I do n't suppose I 'm the only person that 's been in a pub toilet , a ladies toilet and I 've heard the females in the toilet saying what , exactly what they would like to do the males ! |
| 7 | In principle he would like to do the movie , but you know how it is with agents . |
| 8 | Now and then , Kitty would volunteer to do a couple of hours ' work on the barrow , but once she had eaten her way through the day 's profits she would soon disappear . |
| 9 | I am often upset when people approach British Rail on the safety issue and ask how much it would cost to do the job properly . |
| 10 | We would hope to do the construction during the spring or early summer this year . |
| 11 | We would hope to do the construction during the summer this year , possibly using volunteers from an international work-camp as well as Spokes members . |
| 12 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |
| 13 | Or , possibly , she would have done a bit of both . |
| 14 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 15 | I would have done a car with somebody holding it |
| 16 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 17 | He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental . |
| 18 | I knocked eventually on the door of the horse-car and , after inspection and formalities that would have done an Iron Curtain country proud , was admitted again by Ms Brown to the holy of holies . |
| 19 | But actually any three anchor points on the plane would have done the trick just as well , and would have given identical results . |
| 20 | There was nothing short of taking the chap by the scruff of his neck and showing him the street that would have done the trick . |
| 21 | Sure you know it 's , it 's a high fence but we could try to jump in and would have done the other , the farmer came with a stick and er he Useful know , no |
| 22 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 23 | Gascoigne , appearing riled by some of the rough-and-tumble of Tranmere 's enthusiasm , teased and toyed with their defence , beating one , two and three defenders , only to fall foul of three more when a simple pass would have done the business . |
| 24 | Amis 's admiring study of Fleming , The James Bond Dossier ( 1965 ) , acknowledged much of all that with a characteristic bluntness , and in ‘ a spiteful tangent ’ or side-swipe against Eliot and Modernism he remarked that ‘ a few mentions of ( say ) Nestlé 's condensed milk , Woodbines , Spinks 's plum-and-apple jam and Scotch-and-Apollinaris would have done The Waste Land a world of good ’ , the lack of a socio-temporal context having left Eliot 's poem ‘ just one more of the featureless , flavourless lumps of cultural lumber it purports to be superior to ’ . |
| 25 | Any county wicket-keeper would have done the job — but Stewart , unbelievably , completely missed the bails . |
| 26 | A professional would have done the job properly . |
| 27 | Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well . |
| 28 | If they travelled alone or in couples , it was of course dear William who met them , carried their luggage , bought their tickets , but once at the docks , they would have to do the rest of the trip alone . |
| 29 | In the meantime , since no amount of nagging would persuade Maxie to rake up the leaves or to allow her to employ a man to do it , she would have to do the job herself . |
| 30 | He realised then that he would have to do the job himself . |