Example sentences of "would [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd 've just switched it on when I come in it 'd 've been totally different . |
| 2 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 3 | If you 'd have had the ti if you 'd 've been there |
| 4 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
| 5 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 6 | And the pieces of wire he 'd cut were too short . |
| 7 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
| 8 | My dad was a mason — I reckon he 'd have been right interested in these bricks . |
| 9 | I think we 'd have been right up the creek without the paddle ! |
| 10 | Had my talents lain in a completely different direction — say stonemasonry , or cooking , then I 'd have been equally happy to make those my career . |
| 11 | If she had n't been with him she 'd have been here before now . |
| 12 | I 'm only sorry I had a prior engagement , otherwise I 'd have been here much earlier . ’ |
| 13 | In that climate he 'd have been well past his sell-by date . ) |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd have been completely wrecked ! ’ |
| 15 | No , no , she 'll she 'll erm she 'll query it , but just as well she noticed otherwise she 'd have been merrily paying it and Norm Norma does n't |
| 16 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |
| 17 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 18 | She married into the worst of Mother 's years , whereas I had the best , and I wonder if I 'd have been as unselfish as Lynda . |
| 19 | Another day and they 'd have been as dead as doornails . |
| 20 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 21 | Their bloody tongues they 'd have been , they 'd have been as thick as these tables by end of day . |
| 22 | We 'd have been much better off corralling him , punishing him , because after all , far from gaining economically he 's lost very , very heavily . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , that , ’ said William , as if it had completely slipped his mind and he 'd have been quite happy talking about Satan and Hell and related matters for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd have been quite happy with that . ’ |
| 25 | He declared : ‘ You 'd have been safer belaying to a daffodil stalk ! ’ . |
| 26 | But he 'd have been home by half-past ten . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd have been more excited if it had been Shirley Bassey , ’ Miss Horrocks , 28 , tells me . |
| 28 | I do n't think I 'd have been more so had the door opened on , say , a Teddy Bear , redolent of the fabulous Oxford of Evelyn Waugh . |
| 29 | I think I 'd have been more sensitive , but for my hair , and my clothes not fitting . |
| 30 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |