Example sentences of "would have do [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Or , possibly , she would have done a bit of both . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I would have done a car with somebody holding it |
| 5 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 6 | He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But actually any three anchor points on the plane would have done the trick just as well , and would have given identical results . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Any county wicket-keeper would have done the job — but Stewart , unbelievably , completely missed the bails . |
| 15 | A professional would have done the job properly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He realised then that he would have to do the job himself . |
| 20 | Though someone would have to do the job . |
| 21 | If he was to get anywhere , he told himself reluctantly , he would have to do the comforting . |