Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] would [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy Lancaster would have been the natural victim of bullies — punched , thumped and insulted . |
| 2 | After all , in the war Barry would have been told that he was fighting to uphold the rights of small nations , so what could be more logical than that he should now fight for the rights of his own country , Ireland , a small nation if ever there was one ! |
| 3 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 4 | It 's just the sort of kit Charlie would have been supplying . |
| 5 | Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed . |
| 6 | Three times world champion Thorpe would have been a major attraction at the Lisburn meeting , but in his absence they have signed up world championship rivals Mervyn Anstie and Gared Smith for the Toyota trophy meeting which takes place at Larchfield Estate close to Legacurry , Lisburn . |
| 7 | In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants , scourging away for all he was worth . |
| 8 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 9 | In Annie 's own youth Ruth would have been a swot in suburbia . |
| 10 | How proud your grandfather Crinan would have been . |
| 11 | When she had gone Scarlet thought how bored with their conversation Brian would have been had he been present , and then she thought that , with him around , they would n't have had that conversation and she would have been bored . |
| 12 | Large tracts of Norfolk and north Essex would have been ceded to the Board and which , perhaps of immediate significance at that time , would have effectively prevented Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith from organising their growing number of WEA Chapter III courses and establishing branches in both counties . |
| 13 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |