Example sentences of "we would [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 2 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 3 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 4 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 5 | Perhaps , if we had only tried to wield the Spear , we would have been saved ; but none had the heart or the courage . |
| 6 | say ca n't recall , we would have been recommending contingency fund |
| 7 | We would have been acting wrongly had we not given her permission to visit her mother . ’ |
| 8 | If we had been the attacking team we would have been wanting that try . ’ |
| 9 | Without the sin of Adam we would have been deprived of the wonder of our salvation . |
| 10 | ‘ We would have been travelling players a century ago . |
| 11 | If we had scored five or six more goals which the statistics prove was possible , then we would have been going to Sydney next year . |
| 12 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |
| 13 | ‘ If he had walked away we would have been left with 11 men to their 10 . ’ |
| 14 | Without it , we would have been left with the feeling that natural selection is only a destructive process , or at best a process of weeding-out . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the government is assuming that 's all we are doing so they 're cutting housing subsidy accordingly and we would have been left with no choice , that 's all there is to be said on the matter . |
| 16 | We would have been spared this ! ’ |
| 17 | Negotiations with the landlords regarding a reduction of their rent demand of £100,000 per annum have been unsuccessful , and had we not used this break clause we would have been committed to the new conditions of the lease way into the twenty-first century . |
| 18 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 19 | Brian Langley , chairman of Athletics Canada , said : ‘ We would have been informed if there had been a positive test on any Canadian athlete . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If you had gone we would have been taken again before the courts . |
| 21 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 22 | Janet adds : ‘ Before the idea of the ‘ drop-in ’ centre , we would have been forced to admit the mother and she would have been in hospital for a few days . |
| 23 | Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe . |