Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’ |
| 2 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 3 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 4 | If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter . |
| 5 | Well I would have been rushing off . |
| 6 | Er , my my natural mother er , actually had me adopted when I was a baby and erm so I was actually adopted by a minister and his wife and I think , erm , I would have been brought up completely differently if she , she 'd just bought me up on her own , you know , so I think erm oh that 's it really . |
| 7 | I 've given my word to her mother that I will see to it that she does — she would n't have been allowed to come here on holiday otherwise , she would have been shut up in her mother 's apartment in Rome . ’ |
| 8 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 9 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 10 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 11 | She opened her mouth to fire a barbed reply , then , remembering where she would have been waking up if he had n't bailed her out , she bit her tongue . |
| 12 | Without Anna for her mother she would have been brought up like an Italian girl of the time , like her aunts . |
| 13 | It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance . |
| 14 | They would have been locked out in the street . |
| 15 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 16 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 17 | Tinnock was penalised , but in England he would have been sent off . |
| 18 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |
| 19 | Moreover , he would have been putting back pretty well all he had drawn out the previous year … |
| 20 | He would have been fighting out of his class . |
| 21 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 22 | He felt he would have been let down by his fellow journalists . |
| 23 | I remember seeing it when we went to that party , and I know , cos it would have been lit up |
| 24 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 25 | At the connecting tunnel it would have been led out of the entrance to the East Shaft top by wooden launder . |