Example sentences of "we would [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) . |
| 2 | Just think of the hell we would have been through … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Think of where we would have been without nurses during the war . ’ |
| 4 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 5 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 6 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 7 | If we had continued to treat patients at the same rate — there has been an unprecedented , inexplicable , and hence unforeseeable rise of 12% in medical emergencies — we would have been at least £0.5m in the red by the end of the financial year . |
| 8 | Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets . |
| 9 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 10 | Newry manager Terry Nicholson said : ‘ We would have been in the game with a better chance if we had taken the two chances that came our way early on . |
| 11 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |