Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they had not arrived by Wednesday lunchtime , I 'd have been off home , ’ he said . |
| 2 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 3 | I if I 'd have been at Jacksons I , I 'd have gone back today . |
| 4 | well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 7 | If I 'd have been on me own I would n't have stopped bloody long . |
| 8 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
| 9 | But well I 'd have been in my teens then . |
| 10 | lost that I 'd have been in a pickle . |
| 11 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 12 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 13 | ‘ Had I done so , trust me , I would have been at my home that particular Friday to honour that promise . ’ |
| 14 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 15 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 16 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 17 | otherwise I would have been on two fifty . |
| 18 | ‘ But I would have been through here sooner or later anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |
| 21 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 22 | I would have been in there , you know . |
| 23 | I wondered what I would have been like if Lili had been my mother , but it was impossible to imagine Lili in the depths of maternity . |
| 24 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 25 | He never had a chance of getting the money , which would have been between 10 and 12 times the amount in circulation in the UK at the moment . ’ |
| 26 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 27 | With hindsight , it is not difficult to imagine alternative uses for this fine estate which would have been of lasting benefit to the Association . |
| 28 | Okay which would have been on the front of your paper . |
| 29 | Instead it 's A two which would have been at nine o'clock and |
| 30 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |