Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you must believe me when I tell you I 'd rather have been with you than in any of those exotic places . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah That 's the only bit I hated I 'd rather have been at work all week and I did n't |
| 3 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 4 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 5 | He observed that his authority and influence were likely to have put her still more off her guard than she would naturally have been from her age and inexperience ; that a fear and awe of the prisoner might check her resistance … ’ |
| 6 | It was a clear hour after Bissett would normally have been at his desk . |
| 7 | Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall . |
| 8 | Reluctantly , Charlotte agreed , even though she was sure he would already have been in touch with them in such an event . |
| 9 | Under normal circumstances , such as those which have pertained there for at least 685 years , it would hardly have been worth investigating . |
| 10 | Jesus would hardly have been in a position to carry out this miracle of healing . |
| 11 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |
| 12 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 13 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if we had won at Torquay , ’ said Corden , ‘ but it was a diabolical performance and we felt something had to be done . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if Darlington had won at Torquay . ’ |
| 15 | It was ‘ abundantly clear that the byelaw maker , if he had appreciated the limitation on his powers , would both at Greenham Common and at Fylingdales nevertheless have gone on to make the bylaws in such a way that the proviso to section 14(1) was given effect but all the world save commoners would still have been within their ambit ’ . |
| 16 | He had no idea what he was going to do and if the crow had ignored hid he would probably have been at a loss . |
| 17 | Both seem to have attracted around 30 people ; Hague , named last year as the fittest man in the House , would probably have been at home in either . |
| 18 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 19 | ‘ But , however it came across , I do n't think I was feeling very hostile — how could I be when , since I knew which hotel you were in , I would probably have been in contact had you not arrived at my home . ’ |
| 20 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 21 | If his father had lived he would now have been in his sixtieth year . |
| 22 | If I have really understood Dr de Pomiane aright , 1 fancy that while an extravaganza such as Maitre Guérard 's Ali Baba would not have met with his unqualified acclaim , with many of the nouvelle cuisine innovations he would surely have been in sympathy . |
| 23 | ‘ It would almost have been worth it . |
| 24 | If the rifle was all right and had n't got sand inside the sights or anywhere else awkward to clean , it would almost have been worth it . |
| 25 | And that would undoubtedly have been for the best . |
| 26 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 27 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 28 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 29 | They disliked British interference , but at the same time they appreciated that the British they appreciated that the British presence on Persian countered what would otherwise have been over whelming Russian influence . |
| 30 | Besides , Mr Ramaphosa 's claim that the negotiations would otherwise have been on the threshold of a breakthrough is questionable . |