Example sentences of "would [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 2 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such timber buildings would have been built using the accumulated experience of the community and would not have seemed such an intricate task to those who regularly witnessed the activity . |
| 5 | ‘ A number of local residents commented that there was already a disproportionate ratio of pigs to people in the locality and although proposals to extend the operation would have led to some improvement , in that a new farrowing house would have been built to bring the pigs in from the old farm buildings , in fact the larger pig population would increase the scope for offensive odours to permeate the village . ’ |
| 6 | I think I would have been tempted to do that . |
| 7 | He did not enjoy such visits now , and would have been tempted to abandon them if it were not for the fact that people might gossip . |
| 8 | If she had taken the jeep , she knew she would have been tempted to drive it to the beach and look in at Pepe 's . |
| 9 | The Gazza of old would have been tempted to flick that ball in the air and juggle away an outstanding chance for his team . |
| 10 | but you had a eight to finish with which is finishing and a one , two , three might not be and a better run so I think I would have been tempted to finish with the ace flush there try and stop me rather than trying to win it cos you had nothing else did you ? |
| 11 | She would have been tempted to visit all of Montaine 's old haunts . |
| 12 | Almost anyone else witnessing the achievements of this small child would have been tempted to make a great fuss and shout the news all over the village and beyond , but not so Mrs Phelps . |
| 13 | The ground got steadily hillier , and here and there rock outcrops stood out which , had they not been so near to towns , he would have been tempted to investigate . |
| 14 | But even the fiercest dissenter would have been pushed to leave McIlvanney out of the frame . |
| 15 | Some learned judge would have been appointed to head it and his only access to the facts would be to ask the Cabinet Secretary , the Admiralty , the Director General of MI5 and MI6 what they knew . |
| 16 | I ca n't be certain how much I would have been earning working for myself … ’ |
| 17 | That could have been achieved by an international conference in which both sides ( and Bulgaria , which also has an interest ) would have been asked to swear their respect for existing frontiers . |
| 18 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
| 19 | In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story , except perhaps to a few friends alone . |
| 20 | Eleven Clay Cross councillors were surcharged for the money which would have been obtained had the Act been implemented and they were also disqualified from holding public office for a period . |
| 21 | According to the charge , they sold almost two million shares on behalf of clients at prices which realised £1,378,892 in excess of what would have been obtained had the shares been sold after the issuing of the profits warning . |
| 22 | They are said to have sold almost two million shares on behalf of clients at prices which realised £1,378,892 in excess of what would have been obtained had the shares been sold after the warning . |
| 23 | It would have been puzzling had Anthony Quayle not been disturbed . |
| 24 | It is difficult to believe that the submission , valuable for the record and indeed used by Baldwin in his House of Commons speech the following afternoon , would have been sent had Baldwin not satisfied himself the night before what the answer would be . |
| 25 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 26 | So near that , had he glanced sideways , he would have been bound to see her standing with Thomas . |
| 27 | With the tower made of glass and steel , the explosion would have been bound to cause severe injuries . ’ |
| 28 | Møns Klint , known all over the world , as famous in their way as the White Cliffs of Dover , would have been bound to find favour with the Hulsbys . |
| 29 | How an argument began , then a fight , how Leonard would have been killed had she not hit Otto over the head . |
| 30 | New York was swathed in sunlight and the heat would have been stifling had it not been for a gentle easterly breeze blowing in from the Atlantic . |