Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd have been great in silent movies ’ . |
| 2 | Suppose Delia had become friendly with Angy and gone to her flat that afternoon She 'd have been one of the last people to see her alive . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |
| 4 | Quite a good result , we could be miffed after their 3rd goal , but mid-way through the 2rd half I 'd have been exstatic with a draw . |
| 5 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 6 | He could n't have done it … he 'd have been frantic with remorse , stayed with her to comfort her , tried to get help . |
| 7 | She 'd have been delighted with a cornfield and a few startled crows . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 9 | Well I suppose they 'd have been used to going there before you see . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'd have been better with someone nearer her own age , ’ the old woman murmured to herself . |
| 11 | Con always knew where to stop , and he knew where you should stop as well , and if you did n't , he reminded you that you 'd have been better following his example . ’ |
| 12 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 13 | ‘ If it had n't been for your ghastly aunt we 'd have been married by now . ’ |
| 14 | She 'd have been glad of someone to chat to . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd have been ashamed of me . |
| 16 | But he 's pretty certain that , without all this hassle , without the music , he 'd have been stuck in prison by now , so he 's thankful for everything which comes his way . |
| 17 | Lord knows how long I 'd have been stuck in here before they finally realised I was telling the truth . |
| 18 | She 'd have been stuck in some noisy complex in Pollensa and then had to drive back to Palma to do his share of the work . |
| 19 | In fact he 'd have been happy with a five . |
| 20 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 21 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 22 | If I 'd been anything less than convincing , the audience would have picked up on it and I 'd have been furious with myself . |
| 23 | It would 've been best with a bigger piece , bigger programme because then we could 've it was easy to see where we were slipping |
| 24 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 25 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 26 | ‘ Pa would 've been livid with me for getting pregnant , and he would n't want his precious fiddle going to pay for anything to do with it . ’ |
| 27 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 28 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
| 29 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 30 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |