Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] would [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew , with a feeling of detachment , that she attracted quite a few stares herself , primarily from men , and that if she had not had André at her side she would have been in very real danger of having to concoct a few efficient exit lines . |
| 2 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |
| 3 | Because if you had not been down in Minya chasing that gipsy woman you would have been at the theatre . |
| 4 | If France had exceeded its authority it would have been in breach of this agreement , but the effects on the relationship between Morocco and a third party are less clear . |
| 5 | We all knew why : left with Mum they would have been in pawn before we had the chance to wear them . |
| 6 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 7 | Just think of the hell we would have been through … ’ |
| 8 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 9 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 10 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |