Example sentences of "he would have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I do n't think he 'd have been swimming here , sir . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd have been retired by now on a modest pension leading a life of genteel poverty in Brighton or Torquay . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd have been gone by now , sir , but the little devil 's been playing us up . |
| 4 | He 'd have been hoping for lots more land . |
| 5 | He 'd have been drunk , she supposed . |
| 6 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 7 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
| 8 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 9 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
| 10 | It would have depended on which hospital he 'd have been sent to . |
| 11 | He 'd have been signed in . |
| 12 | If only he 'd got caught up in politics , or good works , or become a governor of his old school , he 'd have been taken out of himself more ? |
| 13 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 14 | If he had really done that he would have been dragged before a disciplinary hearing . ’ |
| 15 | The boy was still obliged to give his earnings every week to his family , otherwise he would have been dragged unceremoniously home and that was something Hari would not allow . |
| 16 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 17 | It is ironic to reflect that had he served the Luftwaffe in a similar role to that which he graced in the Royal Air Force , there can be little doubt that he would have been invested with the highest order of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross — with Diamonds , Swords and Oakleaves . |
| 18 | So near that , had he glanced sideways , he would have been bound to see her standing with Thomas . |
| 19 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 20 | If she had spoken truthfully and expressed her doubts about his faithfulness , he would have been flattered , gentle and full of mirth . |
| 21 | Mr Weinberger said he had no doubt he would have been vindicated if his case had gone to trial . |
| 22 | ‘ I am convinced that if the people of Cheltenham had been blind and not seen the colour of John Taylor 's skin he would have been elected , ’ said Mr Nick Leach , secretary of a Cheltenham Tory ward . |
| 23 | Yet the disreputable William Martin had won an enormous following in " Worstedopolis ' , culminating in a mighty show of hands at the hustings which had left no one in any doubt that , had those hands possessed a vote apiece , he would have been elected overwhelmingly as a Bradford MP . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 26 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 27 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 28 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 29 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 30 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |