Example sentences of "would have been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd have been on the streets , girl , that 's where you 'd 'ave been . ’ |
| 2 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 3 | And people have stopped us and have said , If this i if you 'd have been on on the flats , say six , ten years ago , erm it would n't have got the reputation it has now . |
| 4 | But for the woodwork he 'd have been on the score sheet . |
| 5 | It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed . |
| 6 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 7 | If I 'd have been on me own I would n't have stopped bloody long . |
| 8 | If it had been genuine , they 'd have been on the phone quick enough if we 'd not arrived . |
| 9 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 10 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 11 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 12 | It seems safe to assume that Jefferies , like Waterton , Buckland , Wallace , and Charles Kingsley , would have been on his father 's shelf . |
| 13 | The upper team would have been on the logging track above the natural amphitheatre when he broke for cover . |
| 14 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |
| 15 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
| 17 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 18 | If there was any honour in this Government , Mr Heseltine 's resignation would have been on the Prime Minister 's desk at the same time as the High Court judgment . |
| 19 | Normally , the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light . |
| 20 | If Hank had done something particularly dreadful , either Donna Frizzell or some other nosey parker would have been on her doorstep by now to tell her about it . |
| 21 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 22 | In a very realistic scenario , nine Mitchells were lined-up on the main runway , much how they would have been on the aircraft carrier UDD Hornet ready for their fateful flight to Tokyo . |
| 23 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 24 | The ketos , to which the hero is advancing would have been on the missing part of the stone . |
| 25 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 26 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 27 | Such a move would have greatly simplified the supplementary benefit system , as fewer people eligible for benefit would have been on the books of local social security offices . |
| 28 | In the example invented , you would have been on much safer ground if you had written a precise account , as follows . |
| 29 | Okay which would have been on the front of your paper . |
| 30 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |