Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If it had n't the results could 've been catastrophic . |
| 32 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 33 | Well , it would 've been handy would n't it ? some of them . |
| 34 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 35 | You 'd 've been alright if it 'd 've been a mass murderer slept for years . |
| 36 | morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow |
| 37 | It 's a shame you were n't helping out at Christmas , you 'd 've been able |
| 38 | S : No sitcom ever changed my life — had you said soap opera , it would 've been different . |
| 39 | If I 'd ever done anything — made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance — it might 've been different . |
| 40 | Yeah I I think , had they given their side of the argument at the onset , then er things would 've been different . |
| 41 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 42 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 43 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 44 | And the barrel would 've been more or less , well about that in height sir . |
| 45 | I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M |
| 46 | And therefore y er in a sense he was , he was acting on the basis of a false premise and therefore the wh sort of the whole set of conclusions he draws could 've been wrong . |
| 47 | I think that bloke coming off the ladder with the buckets of paint would 've been funnier than them |
| 48 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 49 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 50 | ‘ I can see you 've been busy , and , as I said , I congratulate you . |
| 51 | Yeah , because that would 've been ideal . |
| 52 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 53 | It would 've been easier if I got into dealing again , but I ca n't afford any more heavy scenes with the law . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | She didn there would 've been enough change in that and Kath was gon na go straight to the bank and get her some money back , right ? |
| 56 | If it had happened in a car accident and had been someone else 's fault , perhaps I would 've been bitter . |
| 57 | must 've been frightened , cos he 's never had |
| 58 | You would 've been safe … ’ |
| 59 | It 's my fault really , cos the window should 've been open . |
| 60 | If , if she had believed the aim to keep it off , I would 've been jealous , but she , she 's not going to find it easy to keep her weight , she 's out here when she 's put back on pound . |