Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years . |
| 2 | Congress , if I asked the question , is there a shop steward in the house , I would 've been confident to say yes , but they all seem to be leaving . |
| 3 | I 'd be su I would 've been such a wreck last night if that , if Foxy had done that to me . |
| 4 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 5 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 6 | If it had happened in a car accident and had been someone else 's fault , perhaps I would 've been bitter . |
| 7 | If , if she had believed the aim to keep it off , I would 've been jealous , but she , she 's not going to find it easy to keep her weight , she 's out here when she 's put back on pound . |
| 8 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 9 | I would have been right down ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I would have been smug , but my ‘ pen ’ gag had n't got any laughs . |
| 12 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson added : ‘ I 'm not surprised — in fact I would have been disappointed if he had n't received something . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Now I think I would have been better with a woman , as you are , no ? |
| 14 | Eighteen months previously I would have been content merely to be alive . |
| 15 | I would have been content then to die myself , rather than take my body back eventually to encumber the continents with yet another corpse . |
| 16 | But I would have been married and happily . ’ |
| 17 | I would have been grateful to someone like you when I was little , but I was not so lucky . |
| 18 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 19 | ‘ In fact , I would have been due to cover tonight anyway , but it occurred to me that you might be worried . |
| 20 | Well , ten years ago I would have been twelve but |
| 21 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 22 | I would have been disgraced , and you too . |
| 23 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 24 | I would have been pleased to own any of these , but after they were finished she told me they were all ordered . |
| 25 | I would have been pleased to start this section in similar fashion , but could find very little evidence of improvements . |
| 26 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 27 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
| 28 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 29 | I would have been upset . |
| 30 | ‘ In an ideal world , I would have been delighted to have had someone from the university on the trust . ’ |