Example sentences of "would [verb] been [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 2 | Had the disengagement happened in any other way , it would have been worth sending all his army , Normans included , crashing through the trees to clean them out while the fighting-power was still in them and Siward 's troops were disorganised by the sudden descent of the cavalry . |
| 3 | It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’ |
| 4 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |
| 5 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 6 | At the battle of El Alamein , the South Africans played a vital role , but had he been there , I do n't suppose Coun Williams would have been on speaking terms . |
| 7 | It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly . |
| 8 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 9 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 10 | For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe . |
| 11 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |
| 12 | For her , the only supreme sacrifice would have been in giving up her husband . |