Example sentences of "would [verb] been [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 2 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 3 | I ca n't be certain how much I would have been earning working for myself … ’ |
| 4 | It would have been puzzling had Anthony Quayle not been disturbed . |
| 5 | New York was swathed in sunlight and the heat would have been stifling had it not been for a gentle easterly breeze blowing in from the Atlantic . |
| 6 | Thus in this particular book , while trying to present as fully and clearly as space allowed the teaching of the Scriptures about the Holy Spirit , I would have been failing to meet the aim of the series had I neglected the controversial issues of the baptism , the gifts and the fullness of the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | She certainly did n't want his sympathy ; in all probability she could n't even have coped with it — but still , it would have been reassuring to detect some trace of humanity in the man . |
| 8 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 9 | At home she would have been having buttered toast and strawberry jam and probably a piece of sponge-cake to round it off . |