Example sentences of "would have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd have to take a few hundred and we might get one we both agree on . |
| 3 | She 'd have to take a drink of water . |
| 4 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 5 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 6 | In any case , with the church deserted it would be quite safe I felt certain — provided there were no more nasty shocks , I 'd have to take a chance on that — to descend . |
| 7 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 8 | Right , we 'd have to take a look at that cos I suspect that if he says each is coloured by the host |
| 9 | Oh yeah well er well wo I 'd take a pay cut because erm well I 'd have to take a pay cut anyway , but the thing is though , with my pension with my pension from day one I ai n't gon na be too bad off anyway . |
| 10 | Well you 'd have to take a car er |
| 11 | You 'd have to take a half of it . |
| 12 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 13 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 14 | He wondered if he 'd have made a good interior designer . |
| 15 | If she had wanted to stay she 'd have made a song and dance , but it was better to move . |
| 16 | But now you 'll never know whether he 'd have made a move or not , will you ? |
| 17 | Normally , she 'd have made a fuss about those things , but today it did n't seem to matter somehow . |
| 18 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 19 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 20 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 21 | If she 'd jumped into the water she 'd have made a splash . ’ |
| 22 | If you 'd have made a story up that 's it something else , I wo I would n't have known it 's running . |
| 23 | They 'd have made a fortune ! |
| 24 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 25 | I 'd have felt a lot happier . ’ |
| 26 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 27 | When I had spare time , but if you 'd If it was decent weather you 'd have to give a hand in the garden at home you see ? |
| 28 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |