Example sentences of "would have [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 2 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 3 | Betty MacDougall , local historian and folklorist , was able to work out what families would have been living there in 1876 . |
| 4 | ‘ He would have been cheering loudest out there . ’ |
| 5 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State pointed out in his last answer that on 21 February he expressed sympathy with some of the supporters of the regiments , and he said that he would have been standing outside under the same banners . |