Example sentences of "and [pron] would [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One false turn and I would have been lost among boulders of ice and snow , rocks and fallen trees . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure she would have died without the kiss of life and I would have been devastated to lose her . |
| 4 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 5 | Supper was a triumph of the sort Mrs Crump very rarely experienced and she would have been hurt had anyone pointed out that Mr Crump 's fine and very expensive claret which flowed like spring water was something to do with that success . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the government is assuming that 's all we are doing so they 're cutting housing subsidy accordingly and we would have been left with no choice , that 's all there is to be said on the matter . |
| 7 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 8 | When positive wax models are used they are extremely difficult to extract from the clay and they would have been destroyed in melting them out . |
| 9 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 10 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 11 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 12 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 13 | One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray . |
| 14 | He could have written , ‘ Every time I walk through London I realise how chained down everybody is , how people make one another suffer , how no one is free from corruption ’ — and he would have been greeted with our ‘ Yes , so you think that . |
| 15 | A millisecond before and he would have been trapped . |
| 16 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 17 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |