Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] would [verb] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 2 | It is difficult to say what her speech would have been like in 1960 when she first arrived in London . |
| 3 | She worked like an automaton , and her mind was as drowned out by it as her speech would have been in a noisy factory . |
| 4 | These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits . |
| 5 | When the democratic French governments of the inter-war period ignored Le Corbusier 's scheme for demolishing most of Paris in favour of his own grandiose plan of urban renewal , the architect turned his thoughts to how much better his fate would have been under an absolute monarch like Louis XIV : ‘ Homage to a great town planner . |
| 6 | His shop would have been in a back street , probably in a run-down part of the town , amongst the dwellings of those whom he catered for ; indeed , Sowerberry himself was only just above the bread-line . |
| 7 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 8 | And this is where Derek comes in ( think how useful his fax would have been with the more timid cross dresser ) . |
| 9 | So your gun would have been at least four and a half to five foot off of one surface of the floor ? |
| 10 | ‘ Your mother would have been with us , ’ said one of the waylayers with a touch of reproach , presumably sensing Helen 's lack of commitment . |