Example sentences of "it would [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem .
2 It would 've given us another month to play with at least .
3 round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol
4 It would 've taken me about four hours to do it .
5 I reckon it would 've taken you most of the night . ’
6 I do n't think it would 've bothered us when it was spitting and spotting if we 'd actually been out there , would it , it 's just setting off in it .
7 If I 'd have said , By the way at the end of this I have to take your photograph it would 've put you off .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good .
11 In 1940 and 1941 , for example , it would have done his image in America an enormous amount of good if he had wrapped himself in the mantle of French democracy .
12 If it was going to harm our sales it would have done it by now .
13 the round number plate if it had if it had gone round to there again it would have done it .
14 I but it would have made me jump .
15 It would have made him unable to race . ’
16 If he too had wanted the bomb to go off , his belief would n't have made him shoot , it would have made him dive for cover .
17 Of course it would have made him feel anything but that .
18 In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) .
19 OK , in the end the board would have told him to sod off , but it would have made him look better .
20 It would have made her task easier if he 'd still been in the bitter , brutal mood that had possessed him after William Ash had delivered his ultimatum , but she did n't understand him at present .
21 Second , because the Serbs ' provinces under the plan were not contiguous , it would have made their dream of a Greater Serbia impossible .
22 She turned weakness into strength , for if she had tried to dismiss those accusations it would have made everything else she said suspect .
23 Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded
24 How happy it would have made her at any other time .
25 Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly .
26 Why , it would have made everyone else so sad .
27 ‘ You know , I wanted to take you to lunch at the Ritz , like we did last time , but it would have made us so late in Calking .
28 One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ .
29 It would have made it easier to help you , and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated .
30 Only a fraction harder and it would have made it .
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