Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] been [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 2 | If I 'd have been on me own I would n't have stopped bloody long . |
| 3 | But well I 'd have been in my teens then . |
| 4 | ‘ Had I done so , trust me , I would have been at my home that particular Friday to honour that promise . ’ |
| 5 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 6 | She would have been at his mercy and she did n't suppose he had any such thing . |
| 7 | ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’ |
| 8 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 9 | It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed . |
| 10 | ‘ Right , so Fagg is just more xenophobic and choleric than he would have been in his prime . ’ |
| 11 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |
| 12 | I wonder if he hit the floor … if he did it would have been on his head . |
| 13 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 14 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 15 | If the Procurator was looking for his own pickings , it would have been in his interest to provoke a reaction that could be construed as hostile . |