Example sentences of "would [vb infin] made a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 2 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 3 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 4 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 5 | His language would have made a Chief Petty Officer blush … |
| 6 | Sam would have made a perfect lawyer . |
| 7 | No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them . |
| 8 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 9 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |
| 10 | He would have made a good bad Roman Emperor . |
| 11 | A FINE AIRCRAFT , which would have made a good strategic bomber . |
| 12 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 13 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 14 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 16 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 17 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
| 18 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 19 | ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection . |
| 20 | He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck . |
| 21 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
| 22 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
| 23 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 24 | Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia . |
| 25 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 26 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 27 | If it did act , it would have made a jurisdictional error and its decision would be a nullity . |
| 28 | That much is clear from the standard of his labels ; he would have made a poor museum curator ! |
| 29 | His last words would have made a fine song title . |
| 30 | The Leonardo drawings alone would have made a fine exhibition , although not one to fill the entire first floor of Palazzo Grassi . |