Example sentences of "he would have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had really done that he would have been dragged before a disciplinary hearing . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So near that , had he glanced sideways , he would have been bound to see her standing with Thomas . |
| 6 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 7 | If she had spoken truthfully and expressed her doubts about his faithfulness , he would have been flattered , gentle and full of mirth . |
| 8 | Mr Weinberger said he had no doubt he would have been vindicated if his case had gone to trial . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 18 | Tinnock was penalised , but in England he would have been sent off . |
| 19 | He would have been compared favourably with reactionary governments in the West who had barely begun slum clearance . |
| 20 | There is simply no way he would have been accepted for training in our Church — and that is perhaps a tragedy . |
| 21 | He 's not the first gentleman to turn to crime to pay off his debts , but I suspect that had we brought him before a court he would have been declared insane . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 23 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 24 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 25 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 26 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 27 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 28 | Early in this century , a half-Tsimshian called William Benyon ( he would have been called a ‘ half-breed ’ in the contemporary books of my childhood ) , interviewed all the tribal elders he could find and wrote their stories down . |
| 29 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 30 | Had his plan worked he would have been convicted of obtaining the insurance money by deception through enabling his wife to obtain it . |