Example sentences of "would have be [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She did n't , I think , mention that , ’ Gilbert sounded detached , as though it would have been ill-mannered of him to enquire . |
| 2 | And : ‘ Nigel would have been delighted at your success and I was very moved by your point that at no time was he attended or touched by any but those close to him . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if I had lost you , the Kha-Khan would have been displeased with me . |
| 4 | But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment . |
| 5 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 6 | If only he had thought of recorking his wine after dégorgement , then the perfectly limpid sparkling wine he had managed to achieve for himself and , no doubt , passed on as a ‘ tip ’ to others , would have been available to everybody . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been possible for him , I think . |
| 8 | He had , of course , ensured this by demanding the presence of a Polish envoy to discuss them in Berlin before it would have been possible for anyone to get there . |
| 9 | There is no evidence that Rolle received his Bachelor 's degree , and his frequent scathing remarks on the uselessness of scholarly argument as a means to the knowledge of God indicate that the intellectual training offered at Oxford would have been uncongenial to him . |
| 10 | One item , at least , would have been familiar to her : a folded booklet of pornographic pictures , printed in Denmark . |
| 11 | The expanded E and D would have been invisible to anyone not expecting to find them . |
| 12 | This seems very improbable , though it would have been consistent with his character to reject an organized challenge to the social order but to appreciate and even think of emulating and thereby vanquishing a personal one . |
| 13 | It would have been nice for him to wind things up by breaking the back of Britain 's opposition to integration . |
| 14 | It would have been nice for us to be all together , that 's all … but they 're growing up now . |
| 15 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 16 | Oh , he said , if we had carried on it would have been dear for somebody . |
| 17 | It would have been embarrassing for me . |
| 18 | I was growing in emotional courage , and I had the rather wry thought that Leslie would have been proud of me . |
| 19 | I am sorry Ma has missed this , she would have been proud of me . |
| 20 | George would have been proud of her , as I am sure Steven is . |
| 21 | Imelda Marcos would have been proud of her . |
| 22 | Bob Holderness would have been proud of him . |
| 23 | The great Kemble would have been proud of him : he was more than a little proud of himself . |
| 24 | Sir William Wallace would have been proud of them . |
| 25 | PRINCESS Diana would have been proud of them . |
| 26 | Cinderella would have been proud of them . |
| 27 | We did n't have ‘ team spirit ’ any more , ( Miss Brodie would have been proud of us ! ) . |
| 28 | The Scarlet Pimpernel would have been proud of us . |
| 29 | Guy Fawkes would have been proud of us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Have faith in the future , my princes , ’ she had concluded , ‘ and be of good cheer — you are your father 's sons , and he who laughed always at adversity would have been proud of you . |