Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] would have do " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis .
3 The work we 'd have to do . ’
4 It may be that from a stockbroker they would have done , although there is room for argument .
5 He says he did n't cry , but if he was a girl he would have done !
6 Though of course you would have done anyway .
7 ‘ I 'm sure that in your place I 'd have done the same .
8 In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time .
9 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 .
10 John Combes was obviously friends with a fine stonemason who would have done work at Wilton House and perhaps lived in Broad Chalke .
11 but if I 'd have give it , had to give them some water they 'd have done much better but I , like everybody else we kept hoping it were gon na rain , but !
12 ‘ Mind you , if you 'd said in advance I would have done gooseberry sauce .
13 ‘ And if I broke a leg I 'd have done it whether you were with me or not .
14 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 .
15 In the past she would have done so at once ; not now .
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 It was the sort of thing I 'd have done I suppose if I 'd had the chance .
18 The first thing you 'd have to do , is take off the policy fee .
19 Well it , ah well , of course the other thing you 'd have to do to do that is put a top
20 The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business .
21 Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately .
22 At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage .
23 ‘ Because that 's the way I would have done it , Tel-boy . ’
24 Otherwise I have no doubt you would have done so long ago and at some length .
25 I held his toothbrush , left-handed the way he 'd have done , opened a container of cotton buds , pulled off a length of dental floss , examined a bottle of eardrops .
26 Sir I commend to you the expert evidence relating to the historic character and I hope sir when you visit this site , although it may look very different at this moment from the way it would have done had you been able to visit it after the originally scheduled date of this enquiry , when the daffodils were out ,
27 No doubt he would have done . ’
28 If it had happened no doubt he would have done . ’
29 If he had n't become a personnel officer he would have done rather well in the police .
30 ‘ At that time I would have done anything to finish the film .
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