Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 I says if I 'd 've wanted a slice of fat and I 'd 've want burnt tomatoes I says I would 've ordered them .
2 I mean I thought you 'd 've made a note about oh I must come back to that later
3 Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ?
4 ‘ If she had half an ounce of sense , ’ she said , ‘ she 'd 've put a lock on this thing . ’
5 Five frilly nightdresses straight from mail-order , their labels still attached — I 'd 've nicked a couple only I did n't know what disease they might be carrying .
6 They should have rushed back here , started up the engines and dashed out to sea , and we 'd have sent a police launch or the local equivalent of the Customs and Excise after them . ’
7 If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were .
8 He wondered if he 'd have made a good interior designer .
9 If she had wanted to stay she 'd have made a song and dance , but it was better to move .
10 But now you 'll never know whether he 'd have made a move or not , will you ?
11 Normally , she 'd have made a fuss about those things , but today it did n't seem to matter somehow .
12 The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery .
13 I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’
14 If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it .
15 If she 'd jumped into the water she 'd have made a splash . ’
16 If you 'd have made a story up that 's it something else , I wo I would n't have known it 's running .
17 They 'd have made a fortune !
18 I 'd have felt a lot happier . ’
19 ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ?
20 There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep .
21 Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball .
22 He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’
23 But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better .
24 How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ?
25 Erm but I do n't think we , if we 'd have done a lot more work you know , it 'd have been any better .
26 I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars
27 And he 'd have written a thing I 'm just using William George as an example of course .
28 He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after .
29 I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster .
30 He 'd have gone a bit
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