Example sentences of "[pron] would have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 2 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I assumed I would have been picked for the final . |
| 4 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 5 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 6 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 7 | The deceased loved one would have been left for all to come and see , and grieve over , and most importantly to say goodbye to . |
| 8 | They would have been used for transport between the Stroudwater Canal and Stratford Mills . |
| 9 | In Essex at least they would have been required for aliens only . |
| 10 | There is simply no way he would have been accepted for training in our Church — and that is perhaps a tragedy . |
| 11 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 12 | Had he not opened his mouth , he would have been done for dumb insolence . |
| 13 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 14 | I tried to persuade him that things could n't be so bad as the French paper made out or he would have been wired for . |
| 15 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 16 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 17 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 18 | From that day I ate only pasta dressed with butter and felt safe , because I knew that however late I arrived it would have been saved for me ; no one else would eat it plain . |
| 19 | It would have been selected for on the basis of our ability to kill certain animals for food and to avoid being killed by other animals . |
| 20 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 21 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 22 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |