Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] be [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 2 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 3 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 4 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |
| 5 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 6 | He would have been a good schoolmaster , I thought : gentle , precise , dry-humoured . |
| 7 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 8 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 9 | It would have been a good place to hold a torchlight rally . |
| 10 | It would have been a good party anyway , even if he had n't met Sara , he thought . |
| 11 | It would have been a good excuse to use to get Mr Parnham off his back . |
| 12 | Clearly the Heart of England deal has not been completed and there are difficulties with it , which is a pity as it would have been a good start to the venture . |
| 13 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |