Example sentences of "would [verb] done " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't even claim to know what he would want done , because I know almost nothing about him . |
| 2 | ‘ The kiosk would 've done good business today , ’ thought Marie . |
| 3 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 4 | She was good as gold ; I do n't know what he would 've done without her ! ’ |
| 5 | I never thought he would — would 've done that . |
| 6 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
| 7 | But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future . |
| 8 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 9 | No he would 've done if you had n't , but he says this |
| 10 | Oh I 'd 've thought he would 've done . |
| 11 | It would 've done . |
| 12 | three two little B , the same level of capital payments on non T S G assisted schemes would 've done , erm exactly what are these schemes ? |
| 13 | un unfortunately he has but , you know , and James goes , he goes God that really does n't sound like Sal , I really would n't have thought he would 've done that to you . |
| 14 | Yeah I would 've done too . |
| 15 | Of course , I 've I 've left him in the charge of of not I have n't asked Paul to take him under his wing over the weekend , but I 've left Neil a list of things that I would like done . |
| 16 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 17 | ‘ Mind you , if you 'd said in advance I would have done gooseberry sauce . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which were almost hypothetical . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 22 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 23 | Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly . |
| 24 | ‘ I wanted very rough plaster , as a farm labourer or a member of the family would have done it . |
| 25 | Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done , the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child . |
| 26 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which are almost hypothetical . |
| 27 | If I do n't match up then they 'll say , oh , Dusty would have done this or that . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The draw ceremony was conducted seductively by Sophia Loren , operatically by Pavarotti , efficiently by Joseph Blatter , the Fifa general-secretary , and set against a background of studied chaos which would have done credit to a film by Fellini . |
| 30 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |