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

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1 I mean , we , we used to have , like , we 'd have meat come twice a week , they 're the butchers , and then we 'd have coming , maybe , erm , once a week , and then like the dry goods , er , erm , we 'd have another day , where erm , you know , you have different things , basically coming every day .
2 It sounds obvious but some drawings of birds are so odd you 'd have difficulty identifying even a bluetit from them .
3 Modelling at Adorno 's would be steady work ; it would pay well and , even after the agency took its cut , she 'd have money left over .
4 Did they say owt and that when you ordered it , did it say that you were n't satisfied er that you 'd have postage to pay ?
5 ‘ You 'd have plenty to talk about . ’
6 I think Fancher thought I 'd have dope sent to the Voice .
7 You 'd have trouble swinging a gerbil , let alone a cat , in the kitchen .
8 It was pointed out that you needed 10 great players to do that , and we 'd have trouble mustering one .
9 They 'd have trouble talking to a budgie , never mind a bison .
10 I 'd have trouble betting on Leeds at 20/1 , let alone 9/1 .
11 I should n't be so busy organizing things , I 'd have time to do some nursing if I wanted to . ’
12 With any luck I 'd have time to dry my hair and dive back into the satin whatsits before he arrived .
13 " I thought maybe you 'd have time to think it over , Mr Plant . "
14 I used what mind control I could muster to blot out the thought of what lay ahead — at least I 'd have food to eat — after the gauntlet was run .
15 James would have plenty to say about it if he knew .
16 Even at his fittest the 17 ½-stone Mason would have difficulty passing as a flying bird .
17 Even at his fittest the 17 ½-stone Mason would have difficulty passing as a flying bird .
18 It appeared unlikely , however , that de Klerk would have difficulty steering the proposed legislation through the Parliament , where the ruling National Party together with the pro-reform Democratic Party controlled almost three-quarters of the seats .
19 Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes .
20 If Berger took the lead into the first corner , then Senna would have difficulty getting by on such a tight and twisting circuit .
21 Opponents would have difficulty keeping him quiet .
22 Businesses would have difficulty surviving without the use of this communication tool , and our private lives would be very different without it .
23 If they said you can go anywhere you like it would , that would cause I would , I would have difficulty deciding .
24 It would not be surprising if the loss of a job for a middle-aged manager who would have difficulty finding other similar employment within his field of expertise and at his age and occupational level was experienced as highly distressing .
25 If an order was cancelled we would have difficulty finding another buyer .
26 Here , in a room even estate agents would have difficulty describing as anything other than small , 20 people clung to the perimeter walls as a man with a Chris Waddle haircut hammered out some old rock cliches .
27 Sir John , delivering the annual lecture to the Graduate School of Environmental Studies , said people and ecosystems would have difficulty adapting to the rates of change , but scientists needed to learn more about the likely effects before countries would know how to respond .
28 It was to cut his ties that he had begun , from the earliest days , to sign his work ‘ Vincent ’ , following the practice of his adored Rembrandt , and making the excuse then that foreigners would have difficulty pronouncing his surname .
29 Todd from Neighbours also highlights another problem often seen ; he would have difficulty depositing his cans in the ‘ Save-A-Can ’ skip as it is clearly full to the top .
30 Somali aid workers gave warning that , if imported food aid continued to flow in , local farmers would have difficulty selling their own produce .
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