Example sentences of "would have be [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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1 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |
2 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |
3 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
4 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
5 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
6 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
7 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
8 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
9 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
10 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
11 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |