Example sentences of "[pron] would have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 2 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 5 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 6 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 7 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 8 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 9 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 10 | Early in this century , a half-Tsimshian called William Benyon ( he would have been called a ‘ half-breed ’ in the contemporary books of my childhood ) , interviewed all the tribal elders he could find and wrote their stories down . |
| 11 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 12 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |
| 13 | To Paykel , it would have been considered a positive event or ‘ entrance ’ event which he would therefore not expect to correlate with depression . |
| 14 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 15 | Indeed , their hire was taken for granted , and it would have been deemed a curious request had a client expressed a view to buy them . |
| 16 | Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal . |
| 17 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |