Example sentences of "you would [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 2 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 3 | You have been to a tournament and an auto-da-fé already , and if you had not embarrassed my son by fainting at the latter event you would have been presented to King Sebastian himself . " |
| 4 | So no , ring them , in fact ask one of your publican mates , you were one yourself , when was the best time you would have been contacted . |
| 5 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 6 | If I had of done you would have been thinking , Ooh ooh ooh ooh . |
| 7 | I thought you would have been gone , all three , long ago . |
| 8 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 9 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 10 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean that presumably you would have been required to pay for your bed and board in the normal way without subsidy . |
| 12 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 13 | Of course , if you were a Vogue reader with a purse to match , you would have been urged to visit such places in the 1970s , but where the rich ( or adventurous ) manage to travel independently , the package holiday-maker reaches a decade later and , just as Thomas Cook had envisaged , the inclusive tour enables more people to travel to far-flung destinations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And then you say , ‘ if you had stated that [ the passengers were returning separately ] , you would have been issued two tickets . ’ |
| 16 | The crux is that the amount of damages obtainable will , prima facie , be the total of the salary and fringe benefits to which you would have been entitled between the time of the job actually ending and the time at which the contract could lawfully have been ended by due notice . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | you would have been working when the General Strike was on , |