Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [been] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I assumed I would have been picked for the final . |
| 3 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 4 | They would have been used for transport between the Stroudwater Canal and Stratford Mills . |
| 5 | In Essex at least they would have been required for aliens only . |
| 6 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
| 7 | There is simply no way he would have been accepted for training in our Church — and that is perhaps a tragedy . |
| 8 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 9 | Had he not opened his mouth , he would have been done for dumb insolence . |
| 10 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 11 | I tried to persuade him that things could n't be so bad as the French paper made out or he would have been wired for . |
| 12 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 13 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 14 | From that day I ate only pasta dressed with butter and felt safe , because I knew that however late I arrived it would have been saved for me ; no one else would eat it plain . |
| 15 | It would have been selected for on the basis of our ability to kill certain animals for food and to avoid being killed by other animals . |
| 16 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |