Example sentences of "i would [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I would have been tempted to do that . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’ |
| 4 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 5 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 6 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 7 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 8 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 9 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 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 | Of course , alone I would have been turned away . |
| 12 | One false turn and I would have been lost among boulders of ice and snow , rocks and fallen trees . |
| 13 | " I would have been impeached " , said Kennedy . |
| 14 | I would have been isolated from nature , and natural forces , but for the fact that , from my earliest childhood , I was familiar with the sea and fishing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I ca n't be certain how much I would have been earning working for myself … ’ |
| 17 | I would have been killed . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 20 | ‘ It was n't important , otherwise I would have been married to the ladies in question . |
| 21 | I would have been forced to do the same myself . |
| 22 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 25 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sure she would have died without the kiss of life and I would have been devastated to lose her . |
| 28 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 29 | Well I would have been rushing off . |
| 30 | ‘ If the ankle had gone in the Blackburn game I would have been letting everyone down . |