Example sentences of "it would have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Fourth one smelt of sick , but it 'd have to do .
2 cos it 'd have to take a long time .
3 The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — SCO says it 'd have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 platforms still make up half its business .
4 That thing on her neck well it were n't a bite , cos it 'd have gone by now .
5 So it would 've led to other things as well .
6 It would 've done .
7 It would 've given us another month to play with at least .
8 No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem .
9 It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’
10 It would 've sounded most odd .
11 round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol
12 I reckon it would 've taken you most of the night . ’
13 It would 've taken me about four hours to do it .
14 On the contrary , it would 've seemed a very , very up to date , state of the art , kind of book .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 . ’
19 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 .
20 It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s .
21 He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out .
22 Still , 209 all out seemed a fair performance by England , or it would have done had more of their batsmen scored some runs .
23 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 .
24 It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell …
25 The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans .
26 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 .
27 It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish .
28 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 .
29 Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch .
30 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 .
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