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Example sentences for "would have been very"

  • Both parties were now clearly placed in a false position, yet one which it would have been very difficult to have avoided.

  • He would have been very useful to them, if they had been able to make him turn traitor!

  • And if Master Jup had not been satisfied, he would have been very difficult to please; but he was quite contented and contemplated his own countenance with a sentimental air which expressed some small amount of conceit.

  • It would have been very important to know if the pirates were numerous and better armed than the colonists.

  • It would have been very wrong--very wicked, I may say," said the countess.

  • They did want me to go home with them to Castle Richmond for to-morrow night; but I declined that," and Clara uttered a slight sigh, as though she had declined something that would have been very pleasant to her.

  • I cannot say when; I had hoped that it would have been very soon; but all this will of course delay it.

  • I am very glad of it," said Catherine; "it would have been very shocking!

  • It would have been very shocking to have it torn," said she, "would not it?

  • It would have been very unpleasant to me in every respect.

  • If I had set my heart on Mr. Elton's marrying Harriet, it would have been very kind to open my eyes; but at present I only want to keep Harriet to myself.

  • He remembered that she had told him that if he had insisted on an immediate answer to his proposition it would have been very easy to give it to him.

  • I am sure he would have been very glad to fight if any one had come down.

  • It would have been very hard on me," she said, "if Olive had asked me to carry to you the news of your rejection.

  • He would have been very ready to advise any other man what to do in such a case.

  • Then he would have been very unreasonable.

  • It would have been very hard to go away," said the Doctor, "if he had told her to do so.

  • He would have been very unlike a gentleman had he thought so.

  • And it would have been very dreadful, not having a regular trousseau," said Gertrude.

  • Had it been himself or his wife it would have been very different; but for Ayala, on such an occasion as this, he would be extravagant.

  • It would have been very disagreeable;--but then he was going away for so long a time, for so many miles!

  • On the other hand, had doors themselves been entirely of that metal it would have been very difficult if not impossible to swing them upon their hinges, especially in the case of city gates like those just referred to.

  • It would have been very difficult to contrive windows through such masses as that, and they would when made have given but a feeble light.

  • With such methods of construction as those we have described, it would have been very difficult to multiply stories.

  • I admired you; I liked you; it would have been very possible to me to marry you.

  • It would have been very dear to her to see him at a distance, but she dreaded lest he should see her.

  • It would have been very hard to ask Mrs. Bower for help.

  • The former was found to be extremely strong and, had it been manned by the enemy, the work of capturing it would have been very serious, indeed.

  • If they had done so, it would have been very awkward.

  • He was a very sordid man, and I believe if the King had chosen to give him a good round sum he would have been very quiet.

  • If I had complained to the King of the ill treatment I received from the Dauphine he would have been very angry; but she would not have hated me the less, and she and her old aunt would have formed means to repay me double.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would have been very" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different things; would cease; would come; would consent; would deliver; would fight; would give; would have told you; would observe; would only; would permit; would prefer; would read; would receive; would refer; would return; would say; would submit; would succeed; would suffice; would suggest; would take too long; would teach; would turn; would undertake; would wish