Example sentences of "it would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it would 've led to other things as well . |
| 2 | It would 've done . |
| 3 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 4 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 5 | It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’ |
| 6 | It would 've sounded most odd . |
| 7 | round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol |
| 8 | I reckon it would 've taken you most of the night . ’ |
| 9 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
| 10 | On the contrary , it would 've seemed a very , very up to date , state of the art , kind of book . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s . |
| 17 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 18 | Still , 209 all out seemed a fair performance by England , or it would have done had more of their batsmen scored some runs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell … |
| 21 | The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 28 | For whatever reason , his concert appearances from then on revealed only occasional glimpses of his mettle , and of the recordings which followed , only the Rachmaninov Third Concerto with Abbado added lustre to the legend — it would have done so a sight more effectively had it been decently recorded by CBS ( 10/88 ) . |
| 29 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 30 | What then of the Government 's claim that it is spending more money in income support than it would have done had the previous supplementary benefit system remained in place ? |