Example sentences of "would have be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |
| 2 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 3 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 4 | You realize they 'd have been kicking out second helpings . |
| 5 | ‘ But I do n't think he 'd have been swimming here , sir . ’ |
| 6 | Otherwise you 'd have been swept away again . ’ |
| 7 | We 'd have been stopped long ago . |
| 8 | He 'd have been signed in . |
| 9 | If only he 'd got caught up in politics , or good works , or become a governor of his old school , he 'd have been taken out of himself more ? |
| 10 | Seen a a lot of other things I would n't have seen if I 'd have been working down a pit or behind a shop counter or something . |
| 11 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 12 | I mean she 'd have been knocked over , I mean I know she 's pretty swift . |
| 13 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If I 'd been there much longer she 'd have been levelled down all right , ’ Bridie said with a grin . |
| 15 | Anyway , I 'd have been put out if my infallible charm had proved fallible after all ! ’ |
| 16 | No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics |
| 17 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 18 | Otherwise I 'd have been driving tonight |
| 19 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 20 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 21 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 22 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 23 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 24 | The hammered coin finds do not indicate the same form of activity that would have occurred at the time the weights would have been lost so two different forms of activity must have taken place . |
| 25 | Evgeny Onegin would have been written even if Pushkin had never existed , claims Brik , just as America would have been discovered without Columbus . |
| 26 | If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter . |
| 27 | If this was coppicing , it had been somewhat fierce and the trees would have been cut back to soil level . |
| 28 | Had it been new information , it would have been presented independently in the predicate , because this is where new information normally occurs in English : Heseltine has been appointed as Minister of the Environment . |
| 29 | I 've given my word to her mother that I will see to it that she does — she would n't have been allowed to come here on holiday otherwise , she would have been shut up in her mother 's apartment in Rome . ’ |
| 30 | To ask Rupert Murdoch what were his ‘ goals ’ would have been to pose probably rather a difficult question ( if the answer were serious ) . |