Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 2 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 3 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 4 | Without him so many Christmases would have been just another day . |
| 5 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |
| 6 | If the original figures totalled 120,000 men of military age , together with 100 professional soldiers , the entire population would have been nearly half a million , which again tallies well with other indications in the text . |
| 7 | To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green . |
| 8 | She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer . |
| 9 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 10 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 11 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 12 | We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults . |
| 13 | Very often in therapeutic groups they do claim not to , but in fact er the leader does play a very dominant role er and even when the attention shifts to members of course , the fact that all the other members are watching them means that their reactions and what they say and think and do in a group would have been very much constrained by their actions and expectations o of the other members . |
| 14 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 15 | Appearing in Ackerley 's books pages might , you feel , have been a privilege but an afternoon of Joe and Joe 's dog would have been too much . |
| 16 | Going into another troupe after being a Tiller would have been too much of a comedown . |
| 17 | However little , it would have been too much . |
| 18 | It would have been too much for poor Bridget , looking after them , when she had so much to do . |
| 19 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 20 | It is hard to believe they would have been too much for the North Atlantic alliance . |
| 21 | The ordeal of suffering his ogling eyes on her at mealtimes would have been too much , even for someone with Beth 's strong constitution . |
| 22 | It would have been too much , having to look after Rebecca . |
| 23 | A week ago six hours would have been too much . |
| 24 | Would have been too much . |
| 25 | It would have been too much to hope for one capable of answering any of the questions that were beginning to raise their heads in her sleep-muffled brain . |
| 26 | The contrast between Dysart 's carefree existence and his own would have been too much to bear . |
| 27 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 28 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 29 | The local man replied " There would have been as much enthusiasm if you had done the same tonight . " |
| 30 | it would have been about that time , yes , or soon after |