Example sentences of "would have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 2 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 3 | And the prominent prehistorian Professor R. J. C. Atkinson has clearly demonstrated that the laying out of an accurate , straight landscape line would have been well within the means of the megalithic builders . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 5 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 8 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 9 | I suppose I could have stopped and analysed just how much , but that would have been massively beside the point . |
| 10 | If the line of the Gallery was maintained then the exit to La Scala would have been equally off line . |
| 11 | At Ruislip , he would have been nominally in a grade one lower than in his Hendon post and would have not been able to exercise his abilities as a mechanic . |
| 12 | ‘ Parts of the old Norman church still remain , ’ Esme explains , ‘ so would have been here in Cadfael 's day The church features in Sanctuary Sparrow and again in Eye Witness , where the blind old Welshman , Rhodri Fychan , begs by the west door . |
| 13 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 14 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 15 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 16 | Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either . |
| 17 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 18 | In the old days this would have been all to the good . |
| 19 | Your Uncle Jack would have been all over him . ’ |
| 20 | As they say it would have been all over the village the smell and everything it is wrong . |
| 21 | If she knew he was near , watching her from that distant , unimaginable place , then these past months of playing her part , of continuing Mark 's glorious laughter and zest for life in a sort of living memorial to his spirit — well , then it would have been all worth it . |
| 22 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 23 | Half a century ago it would have been so in fact . |
| 24 | This attitude , on the part of their sources , is basically foreign to Marx 's and Engels 's overall work , and one feels they would have been more at home with the work of more modern prehistorians . |
| 25 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd have thought Brahms and Liszt would have been more to your taste . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It would have been more to the point if you 'd attacked Ryan , ’ he said brutally , ‘ because , despite your lousy opinion of me , I 've done nothing to deliberately hurt you . |
| 28 | It was gentle , with none of the strident accent which would have been more in keeping with the circumstances . |
| 29 | It would have been more in keeping with his mood if yesterday 's rain had persisted . |
| 30 | If it had been pouring with rain the walk would have been cancelled , and that would have been more in keeping with Lucy 's mood , which was one of deep depression . |