Example sentences of "would have been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean what would have happened to us kids if if she 'd have been like him ? |
| 2 | She 'd have been like the Mercedes , another symbol of his wealth and authority . |
| 3 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 4 | For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe . |
| 5 | The effect on a racehorse would have been like ‘ a firework exploding in its ear ’ . |
| 6 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |
| 7 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 8 | Sunderland defender Terry Butcher admitted : ‘ If Derby had scored it would have been like the Alamo . |
| 9 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 10 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 11 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 12 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 13 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 14 | It would have been like something out of the Keystone Cops . |
| 15 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 16 | I wondered what I would have been like if Lili had been my mother , but it was impossible to imagine Lili in the depths of maternity . |
| 17 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 18 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 19 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 20 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 21 | It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly . |
| 22 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 23 | It would have been like Donleavy to try to clear up the Asmar mess himself . |
| 24 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 25 | ‘ If you do n't go , you 'll have it at the back of your mind for the rest of your life , wondering what it would have been like to really know him . |
| 26 | It is difficult to say what her speech would have been like in 1960 when she first arrived in London . |
| 27 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 28 | ELIZABETH dreads to think what life would have been like if legal aid had not opened the door to court action after her husband was seriously injured in an industrial accident . |
| 29 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |
| 30 | Now I do n't what Italy and those Middle Ages would have been like , that the sort of clothes that were worn . |