Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] on [noun] " in BNC.

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1 erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it .
2 Normally , the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light .
3 If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity .
4 There had also been personal prejudice against the three men who would have been on trial .
5 ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’
6 As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council .
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