Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 2 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 3 | I ca n't be certain how much I would have been earning working for myself … ’ |
| 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 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 6 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 9 | Well I would have been rushing off . |
| 10 | ‘ If the ankle had gone in the Blackburn game I would have been letting everyone down . |
| 11 | I would have been killing myself laughing if the team were n't battling away so furiously for a winner and the whole place going mad . |
| 12 | Thus in this particular book , while trying to present as fully and clearly as space allowed the teaching of the Scriptures about the Holy Spirit , I would have been failing to meet the aim of the series had I neglected the controversial issues of the baptism , the gifts and the fullness of the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | I would have been standing erm about two or three foot away from him anyway sir , so that , including the distance height wise , I could have been er from the end of my weapon to his head or any part of his body there would have been a maximum of between four to five feet at least . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At home she would have been having buttered toast and strawberry jam and probably a piece of sponge-cake to round it off . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 23 | If I had of done you would have been thinking , Ooh ooh ooh ooh . |
| 24 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 25 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 26 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |
| 27 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |
| 28 | Magistrate John Pemberton told Wendy , who now has a steady boyfriend , aged 24 : ‘ If prostitution had been involved you would have been going to prison . ’ |
| 29 | you would have been working when the General Strike was on , |
| 30 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |