Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had the centre not been there to keep an eye on me , I would have probably been admitted to hospital the previous week and kept in . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 3 | The bronze fastenings dated the wreck after 1750 ; prior to 1750 , she would have probably been fastened with iron and tre-nails ( wooden dowels ) . |
| 4 | In the First World War they would have simply been taken out and shot . ’ |
| 5 | But I suppose in a way they would have then been contemplating selling their own house and getting somewhere else before in fact |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , they had remained loyal to the meetinghouse style they would have still been criticized for not having a style which met the needs of their time . |
| 7 | In moving these matters from commissioning in grant A erm , to this committee , erm , even if Social Services had had the money available , if they would have still been moved to this committee . |
| 8 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 9 | But the man beside her would no more have walked or ridden a motorcycle than he would have willingly been parted from this — this blatant symbol of money . |
| 10 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 11 | He would have still been picked by Wilko , and we do nt need the fucking money to buy someone . |
| 12 | His father , Robert Robinson , 58 , of Sidney Street , Saltcoats , claimed that an injection given to his son in hospital by a senior doctor killed him and if he had been sent to the neurosurgery unit at the Southern General in Glasgow he would have still been alive . |
| 13 | So , when Freud 's Totem and Taboo appeared in nineteen thirteen , it would have instantly been compared with these , and that is the genre of er , anthropological writing in which it , it would of been immediately been at home . |
| 14 | So that I think , had the subject been injustice , it would have just been just as er , exciting as justice , fact or fiction . |
| 15 | This would put the vendor in a better position than it would have otherwise been in had the sale not taken place . |
| 16 | Mind you their rate of exchange if if you 'd have bought all pesetas in this country it would have probably been a better rate of exchange for you . |
| 17 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 18 | If Peel had not got into it I think it would have still been well received but it would have taken longer , ’ says Gedge . |
| 19 | It would have obviously been complicated to get them in to Darlington so we sent the lecturer to them . |
| 20 | Given the consultations and enquiries that are now needed for relatively minor landscape changes , it is doubtful if it would have ever been achieved . |
| 21 | McLeish decided it would be a waste of time to suggest that it would have hardly been reasonable for Angela Morgan to expect to inherit a quick fortune from a man of sixty-two . |