Example sentences of "i would have been a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I would have been a bit more calm , I would have thought , ‘ There 's someone out there 1 6 who cares . ’
2 Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that .
3 I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess .
4 I would have been a street killer
5 Without your help I would have been a frog for ever .
6 If I had asked myself these questions before I rushed into marriage , I would have been a lot better off .
7 Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself .
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