Example sentences of "it would have do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've done . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I do n't think it would have done Miss Huntley a lot of good financially though , given that Angela was only twenty-nine and actuarially good for another forty years . ’ |
| 4 | If it had not been for the extraordinary resilience of Hitler 's Wehrmacht and the fortitude of the German people , it would have done so . |
| 5 | It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s . |
| 6 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 7 | Still , 209 all out seemed a fair performance by England , or it would have done had more of their batsmen scored some runs . |
| 8 | As with most fossils of this comparatively recent date , the shell looks now much as it would have done when the animal first died , except for the loss of pigment . |
| 9 | It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell … |
| 10 | The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans . |
| 11 | The use of her first name did not imply familiarity , as it would have done in England– though she had never really got used to being on first-name basis with everyone ; she was invariably disconcerted by this custom . |
| 12 | It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish . |
| 13 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 14 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 15 | The influence of Argyll and Milton clearly had proved insufficient to turn matters around in the excise establishment at Inverkeithing where it would have done most good . |
| 16 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 17 | For whatever reason , his concert appearances from then on revealed only occasional glimpses of his mettle , and of the recordings which followed , only the Rachmaninov Third Concerto with Abbado added lustre to the legend — it would have done so a sight more effectively had it been decently recorded by CBS ( 10/88 ) . |
| 18 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 19 | What then of the Government 's claim that it is spending more money in income support than it would have done had the previous supplementary benefit system remained in place ? |
| 20 | It is extremely unlikely that it would have done so because everyone at the ports authority had always envisaged a 24-hour operation . |
| 21 | In the flurry and excitement you clue will bulk much less large in the reader 's mind than it would have done . |
| 22 | 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 , |
| 23 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 24 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 25 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 26 | Not that it would have done any good . |
| 27 | It would have done but he , he used to be what we called a proper chain smoker , oh he must have smoked hundreds of Woodbines in a week , must have been hundreds , that was his life . |
| 28 | It would have done nothing for her already damaged ego if he had barged his way into her bedroom , only to find himself having to wade through a torrent of tears . |
| 29 | If it was going to harm our sales it would have done it by now . |
| 30 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |