Example sentences of "you would have been [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that .
2 I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that .
3 of done Quickspend , you 'd have been looking at figures that showed a lot more profitability .
4 You 'd have been doing that .
5 No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics
6 One minute you 'd have been saying , Yeah you can have this hand .
7 well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time .
8 you 'd have been relying on to come and and collect you Newcastle yesterday , and he ai n't got a car .
9 You 'd have been smouldering next morning , would n't she Charlie ?
10 Yeah , so if you 'd have been running windows on it .
11 So you 'd have been running ?
12 ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’
13 If I had of done you would have been thinking , Ooh ooh ooh ooh .
14 You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’
15 Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before .
16 That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty .
17 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 .
18 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 . ’
19 you would have been working when the General Strike was on ,
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