Example sentences of "would have been in " in BNC.

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1 If the children had been with us they 'd have been in the disco , fortunately soundproofed , every night .
2 I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’
3 If the sergeant had caught you there , you 'd have been in trouble because you were n't flogging the beat .
4 The EST freak , Boyd , said , as he took off his trousers and shook his penis at me , ‘ If I were n't white and middle class I 'd have been in Pyke 's show now .
5 Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic .
6 They picked up so much more corn that — if I were to leave them — they 'd have been in trouble in no time .
7 or they 'd have been in a different position
8 If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’
9 From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) .
10 But well I 'd have been in my teens then .
11 lost that I 'd have been in a pickle .
12 And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first
13 I would have thought they 'd have been in touch about extending the guarantee through you .
14 So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid
15 But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America .
16 ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said .
17 Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain .
18 But for the glass in its windows , which originally would have been in small leaded panes , it remains unaltered on the outside .
19 It was soft , but as brisk and clear as it would have been in the middle of the day .
20 Though Lancashire are far below full strength , Grayson has earned his place on merit having captained the powerful North Under-21s to the ADT divisional age-group title and would have been in the side even had the Orrell contingent been available , Martin Strett being ineligible having represented the Northern Division in October .
21 Daeve Pope would have been in heavy metal heaven .
22 These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits .
23 Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’
24 The original porous bone has been consolidated to become much heavier than it would have been in life .
25 Sitwell provides an extended description of the gardens as they would have been in Susanna Jennens 's lifetime , a summary of the more interesting volumes in the library , and a general inventory of the house from Dutch paintings to kitchen pewter .
26 In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place .
27 These galleries face North , and , as Ms E. Little explains in her book , Chronicles of Patterdale , they would have been in a good position beside the early road to attract the attention of the wool clothiers and their servants , the broggers , passing by on horseback in search of stock .
28 The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated .
29 As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table .
30 A reconstruction ( looking NW ) of the area of the Atlas works of Simpson , Maule & Nicholson , as it would have been in the 1860s .
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