Example sentences of "would have do the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But actually any three anchor points on the plane would have done the trick just as well , and would have given identical results . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Any county wicket-keeper would have done the job — but Stewart , unbelievably , completely missed the bails . |
| 8 | A professional would have done the job properly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He realised then that he would have to do the job himself . |
| 13 | Though someone would have to do the job . |
| 14 | If he was to get anywhere , he told himself reluctantly , he would have to do the comforting . |