Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] be so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults . |
| 3 | ‘ You do an old man proud , cariad , ’ he said softly , ‘ I only wish your mother was here to see you today , she would have been so happy . ’ |
| 4 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 5 | For the moment , she did n't stop to wonder why she would have been so distressed if Tom had seen that unpleasant kiss . |
| 6 | He would have been so happy that his daughter — his only child — ’ the pause-calculating arrived once more and pushed up Hope 's resistance another notch ‘ — had accepted and had been so proud to accept the proposal of a man as distinguished as you , sir . ’ |
| 7 | And because the French Basque country , unlike the Spanish , is thoroughly rural , it is very much a tourist region ; it would stop being so were terrorism to cross the frontier . |
| 8 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 9 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 10 | It would have been so easy to spend a couple of weeks lazing by one of the swimming pools doing absolutely nothing in this idyllic setting , but there was so much going on that I was tempted off my sunlounger . |
| 11 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 12 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
| 13 | As a doctor it would have been so easy , and that very easiness , not her by now nominal Catholicism , had held her back , temporarily , from what she knew would be inevitable one day … before she was forty . |
| 14 | Half a century ago it would have been so in fact . |
| 15 | But when Baby came she thought if it was a Nigerian boy it would have been so easy . |
| 16 | ‘ But I had to go : it would have been so wet to have said no . ’ |
| 17 | I realised , perhaps more than most , that it would have been so easy to become absorbed and involved with the boat to the extent of the customs work taking second place . |
| 18 | It would have been so much easier if he had remained hostile towards her , but she could sense that that simply would not have been in keeping with his personality . |
| 19 | It would have been so easy to have the chimney-sweep around . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course ’ he said sitting down again ‘ it would have been so much easier if we had the assassin alive and on trial . |
| 21 | It would have been so good to just sit there and let Luke hold her , to draw comfort from his strength , but how could she do that when he was supposedly in league with the man who had done that to her house ? |