Example sentences of "he would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster . |
| 2 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 3 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 4 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |
| 5 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |
| 6 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 7 | If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and , mathematically , infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation , cruelty , oppression , barbarism , murder and vicious wrongdoing , he would have been at first amazed , then outraged and finally contemptuous , disbelieving the information . |
| 8 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 9 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 10 | Another foot and he would have been in the brook . |
| 11 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |
| 12 | He would have been in there swinging with the best . |
| 13 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 14 | He took himself off , illogically cursing Emily Groundwater ; if it had not been for her he would have been in a warm bed , with Bible Willie breathing beside him . |
| 15 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |
| 16 | Without the thriving Fish he would have been in debt . |
| 17 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 18 | He looked like a local man , at home and unobtrusive in this comfortable country room as he would have been in the border landscape outside . |
| 19 | ‘ Right , so Fagg is just more xenophobic and choleric than he would have been in his prime . ’ |
| 20 | In his statement of claim the plaintiff admitted that since termination of the contract he had by reason of continuing to work within the insurance industry acted in such a way that , if the contract were still subsisting , he would have been in breach of clause 9A . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 've saved his life , because without attention that wound would have turned nasty ; he would have been in a lot of pain and eventually died . ’ |
| 22 | Kelly grunted , seemingly no more upset by the destruction of his diner than he would have been by a broken plate . |
| 23 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 24 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |