Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] would [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Well I do n't think I would of been very pleased if you 'd put a go in the room for an hour !
2 But had he not of abdicated he would of been the Que , King .
3 well we must wait on a bit , we 'll have to now , if she had n't phoned it would of been , you know something nice to think about wo n't it ?
4 I would of thought you 'd of been better if you just well just sit down then love .
5 Yeah I suppose it would of been alright like , but I do n't like keeping them
6 I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast
7 I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one
8 That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know
9 It was I thought you 'd of been in town all morning , no .
10 Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever .
11 I thought it would of been C cos they 're yellow over there i n't they ?
12 Oh , cheap , oh I thought it would of been about fifty pounds
13 of course it was n't a very nice day I grant the , but erm , I thought he 'd of been here
14 Do n't you think it would of been absolutely Super to have been Immortalised by Robert Burns ?
15 er , you know proper algebra and all that kind of stuff and it , and it was , I think I would of been better if I had of gone to Our Ladies cos I do n't
16 I think she would of been better as a teacher , because as Joan says she is er very taken up with looking after children
17 Yeah well I remember that then just sleep overcame me and I , I closed me eyes and the next thing I knew John says well I wished you 'd of been awake to see that
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