Example sentences of "would have [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Having said all that , you 'd have hoped for tighter marking on the best striker in England when he 's already got 2 goals ! !
2 Still , it seems unlikely that all eight members of the harmonie rustique would have played for this number .
3 A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day .
4 You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home .
5 If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate .
6 The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley .
7 I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it .
8 I doubt that these young men , had they been allowed to form their own world view and their own understanding of national history , would have voted for this bloodshed .
9 One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted .
10 This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service .
11 And if Guido was trying to get her back up by suggesting that Arnie might be enjoying some romantic peccadillo , he would have to look for another way to upset her .
12 to forty or lower , I would have thought for this sort of plan , the majority .
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