Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 2 | I 'd have been glad to give a wee helping hand there myself , and I 'm sure one was needed . ’ |
| 3 | I reckon I 'd have been better off with them , they do n't try to hang one on you … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
| 6 | With the cash to match my pretensions I 'd have been a menace for our Dennis . |
| 7 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 8 | She married into the worst of Mother 's years , whereas I had the best , and I wonder if I 'd have been as unselfish as Lynda . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 10 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 11 | Bond said : ‘ I 'd have been happy to attend the game but have been advised by others not to . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have been more excited if it had been Shirley Bassey , ’ Miss Horrocks , 28 , tells me . |
| 13 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 14 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't believe for one minute I 'd have been the saviour , but I 'd have loved the chance to make a contribution in my country 's hour of need . |
| 16 | If he 'd yelled at me then I 'd have been delirious , then I could have lived with him … |
| 17 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 18 | I do n't think I 'd have been more so had the door opened on , say , a Teddy Bear , redolent of the fabulous Oxford of Evelyn Waugh . |
| 19 | I 'm only sorry I had a prior engagement , otherwise I 'd have been here much earlier . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd have been the proudest father in the history of the game . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd have been very happy playing an old lady of ninety at the age of fifteen . |
| 22 | As I came into the hotel I tried to project myself back into a time when I 'd have been thinking — Sunday press party , rather fun . |
| 23 | I think I 'd have been more sensitive , but for my hair , and my clothes not fitting . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd have been completely wrecked ! ’ |
| 25 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 26 | I 'd have been suicidal . |
| 27 | four years to wait and I 'd have been sixteen . ’ |
| 28 | Aye , it seems I 'd have been better letting it run on the blooming thing . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But I 'd have been wrong . ’ |