Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] would [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I felt it had to be my fault : I was a weak human being with no moral fibre or I would have been able to kick the habit . ’ |
| 3 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 4 | If you already have your own company sick pay scheme , it must pay the employee at least what he or she would have been entitled to on SSP . |
| 5 | It was a good thing she had n't known or she would have been self-conscious . |
| 6 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 7 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 8 | They tried in vain to get the men transferred to a German Prisoner of War camp , where they would have been well treated . |
| 9 | It could hardly be him they wanted , or they would have been pounding upstairs and hammering on his door by now . |
| 10 | However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly . |
| 11 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 12 | Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works . |
| 13 | As a result , there is also concern that the provisions of the Act are failing to provide adequate safeguards against excessive caution on the part of some magistrates who may be tempted to refuse bail even where it would have been safe and proper to grant it . |
| 14 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 15 | It can not occur through any systematic movement or it would have been predicted . |
| 16 | The Government obviously do not have such a plan , or it would have been mentioned today . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although I would have been surprised if London 's Charles Dickens Society required its members to put on a white tie for its annual dinner , the invitation card demanded it for the Scott dinner . |
| 19 | The main points of the explanation that I would suggest are the following . |
| 20 | As I think I mentioned on the phone posssible sources of information that I would suggest are : |
| 21 | And that I would suggest is not a policy that 's consistent er for that with tempered restraint . |
| 22 | The er the only place here in Millford that I would suggest is er Fine Fare ! |
| 23 | So the only thing that I would suggest is |
| 24 | The only point that I would make is that if you are giving an opiate it will have many of the same effects and if I had to choose , I would probably prefer the opiate to diazepam . |
| 25 | What I have said that I would do is to consider what your Lordships have said to see if there is any way in which we can meet the problem . |
| 26 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Cup rugby would also have appealed to me , but I 'm not so sure that I would have been so enthusiastic about playing in a league , ’ Cranmer says . |
| 28 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 29 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 30 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |