Example sentences of "would have been [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still jumped well , but if it had been a bit softer he would have been up there . ’ |
| 2 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 3 | He was excluded on these grounds when the eliminators were announced even though , by the time the fights would have taken place , his ten years would have been up . |
| 4 | If he 'd decided to look in , and seen her fully dressed , the game would have been up . |
| 5 | Still , if he had not been called away he would have been up here , no doubt , demanding to see progress . |
| 6 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 7 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 8 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 9 | I ca n't recall precisely but I , I imagine yes it would have been up , I would have asked for it to be updated at September eighty seven as well |
| 10 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 11 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 12 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 13 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 14 | Some people have said that if they joined the t&g or ACTT the strike would have been over much quicker . |
| 15 | Had it carried , the match would have been over . |
| 16 | Any wrong move , and she would have been over . |
| 17 | Ruddock 's sickly grin on rising , intended to signal that he was okay , was in fact unwitting facial semaphore that the fight would have been over but for the rescuing bell . |
| 18 | His first was his refusal to devalue the pound until he was forced to do so ; had he devalued in mid 1991 as he should have done , the recession would have been over much sooner . |
| 19 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 20 | One gentle push and she would have been over . |
| 21 | If Senna had not either won the race or finished second , he would have been out of the championship . |
| 22 | If anyone else ran a yard of sixty flat-race horses like he did , they would have been out of business years ago . |
| 23 | In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants , scourging away for all he was worth . |
| 24 | He put it in a nutshell when he said she was the sort of girl who , if there had been a meadow handy , would have been out there in a flash picking cowslips . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 'd chosen to be married in June , ’ remarked my mother , doubtless moved by the aroma to an association of ideas , ‘ the mock-orange blossom would have been out . ’ |
| 26 | No one would have been out . |
| 27 | A Spanish paper would have given the game away and an English one would have been out of date . |
| 28 | And if she had n't met Ryan , Ryan with the lovely smile , Ryan the leech , she would have been out there with them . |
| 29 | But if she had n't , she would have been out on her ear right away . |
| 30 | If he had been in charge , we would have been out of the Community , because that was the basis of his election campaign . |