Example sentences of "would have been [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter . |
| 2 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 3 | If this had not happened nothing could have stopped him and the whole party would have been dragged down after him . |
| 4 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |
| 5 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 6 | He felt he would have been let down by his fellow journalists . |
| 7 | That in fact we were looking at almost two months ' work erm for project engineering , when in fact that scheme would have been condensed down into project engineering . |
| 8 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |