Example sentences of "you would have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 2 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 3 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 4 | The final sting in the tail , however , is that adding a decent keyboard to your Spectrum is , while adding to its usefulness , going to raise its price to a level where you 'd have got a decent keyboard included in the cost . |
| 5 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 6 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 7 | You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification . |
| 8 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 9 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 11 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |
| 12 | IF YOU had been in Whitehall one day in April 13 years ago you would have witnessed a remarkable sight . |
| 13 | Here you would have seen a great attraction and opportunities to do well in expanding industries . |
| 14 | ‘ I know you would have signed a civil agreement if you 'd thought of it . |
| 15 | But , at Seattle women 's art was so prolific that you would have needed a whole month to do the work justice . |
| 16 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |