Example sentences of "[pron] would have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was there If I 'd have been there to July , that year that I moved there , I would have been there twenty five years , on that road . |
| 2 | I know we need it , but , I would have been anywhere at the moment though |
| 3 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 4 | It was gentle , with none of the strident accent which would have been more in keeping with the circumstances . |
| 5 | If she had n't been with him she 'd have been here before now . |
| 6 | Aye you 'd have been there in thirty nine . |
| 7 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 8 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 9 | I think we 'd have been right up the creek without the paddle ! |
| 10 | Erm I think I think we 'd have been there about nin No . |
| 11 | They 'd have been there about a couple of weeks . |
| 12 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 13 | This attitude , on the part of their sources , is basically foreign to Marx 's and Engels 's overall work , and one feels they would have been more at home with the work of more modern prehistorians . |
| 14 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |
| 15 | In that climate he 'd have been well past his sell-by date . ) |
| 16 | But he 'd have been home by half-past ten . |
| 17 | Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either . |
| 18 | At Ruislip , he would have been nominally in a grade one lower than in his Hendon post and would have not been able to exercise his abilities as a mechanic . |
| 19 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |
| 20 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 21 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 22 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 24 | It would have been still worth one million pounds had it not been cancelled of course , and the item is actually cancelled , so consequently , naturally not . |
| 25 | I do n't know if it would have been there in Flaubert 's day . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , ’ said McAllister furiously , remembering something which she did not like to remember , ‘ you mean it would have been perfectly in order for him to attack me if he 'd known me ? ’ |
| 27 | As they say it would have been all over the village the smell and everything it is wrong . |
| 28 | If she knew he was near , watching her from that distant , unimaginable place , then these past months of playing her part , of continuing Mark 's glorious laughter and zest for life in a sort of living memorial to his spirit — well , then it would have been all worth it . |
| 29 | If Erika Payers had failed to get to the church ( registry office , actually ) on time , it would have been entirely in keeping with her costume . |
| 30 | ‘ It would have been more to the point if you 'd attacked Ryan , ’ he said brutally , ‘ because , despite your lousy opinion of me , I 've done nothing to deliberately hurt you . |