Example sentences of "would have done the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 5 | After all she was her friend and she was in no doubt that had the positions been reversed Maggie would have done the same . |
| 6 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 7 | ‘ You would have done the same for me , ’ he replied . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | He would have done the same — in those days . |
| 10 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |
| 11 | Earlier Mr Garber told the tribunal : ‘ If a male member of staff belonged to the Chippendales and brought in photos I would have done the same . ’ |
| 12 | Any county wicket-keeper would have done the job — but Stewart , unbelievably , completely missed the bails . |
| 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 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
| 15 | The ‘ impressive and general ’ wording of Article 23 was seen as demonstrating that the Convention would not have been a proper vehicle for a treaty which would have done the barely conceivable by giving other countries control over American litigation . |
| 16 | The stories always came out well in the end , and if one of the officers was a coward or incompetent , you could be sure that by the end of the story he would have done the decent thing and charged the machine gun nest singlehanded , getting killed in the process . |
| 17 | But it was hypocritical sarcasm because she knew she would have done the same as him . |
| 18 | He would have done the same in her position if he had to appear at a press conference — appearance was important to Dexter . |
| 19 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 20 | Viol had made himself obvious today ; and presumably he would have done the same on other occasions . |
| 21 | A professional would have done the job properly . |
| 22 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 23 | ‘ Anyone would have done the same , under the circs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I would have done the same . |
| 26 | You would have done the same for me . ’ |
| 27 | But actually any three anchor points on the plane would have done the trick just as well , and would have given identical results . |
| 28 | Not that it would have done the slightest bit of good . |
| 29 | That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear . |
| 30 | You would have done the same if you 'd known . ’ |