Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] would [verb] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 2 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 3 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 4 | Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets . |
| 5 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |