Example sentences of "[pron] would be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday . |
| 2 | There is no reason to be sitting in bed , but I never thought I 'd be on the go so quickly . |
| 3 | I mean I know that now because I never thought I 'd be on the scrap heap , but sometimes I really do feel as if I am |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd be on the beach sunbathing and he 'd be sitting there in a suit , collar and tie and black shoes . |
| 5 | If it were n't for this job creation scheme I 'd be on the rubbish tip |
| 6 | ‘ I 've promised I 'd be at the Queen 's Hall by eight o'clock . |
| 7 | I promised Tom I 'd be at the stables at two . |
| 8 | If I found it — well , I 'd be over the moon . |
| 9 | I agree , its , its like those their lovely little things , do n't think of buying , it 's not very fair cos I mean , Mar , I mean I 'd be over the moon if someone bought me one of those bags . |
| 10 | she said that and she said she do n't mind us swearing she said I 'll leave you fourteen , it actually says twenty tapes in the , bits of paper but she said if you could fill twenty I 'd be over the moon did she say ? |
| 11 | It was like Fawlty Towers , I 'd be to the bar |
| 12 | Every attack was accompanied by the certain knowledge that within a couple of hours I 'd be under the knife . |
| 13 | If only I had wings , Oh what a difference it would make to things , All day long I 'd be in the sky , up on high , Talking to the birdies that pass me by |
| 14 | I tell you I 'd be in the bed all day . |
| 15 | I 'd be in the shower and they 'd push me out , actually push me out saying , ‘ you black so-and-so ’ . |
| 16 | Otherwise I 'd be in the house all the time . |
| 17 | I told her I 'd be in the Maple Leaf in Covent Garden until about nine , then down in Fulham and I gave her the address of the party and told her to ask for Louise . |
| 18 | He requested that his parents and a very close friend of ours say goodbye to him , and that I 'd be in the room at the time and stay with him when they said goodbye . |
| 19 | Erm so I think I would be between the golf and and erm the medical side . |
| 20 | I had tried to be first in order to get it over with quickly but now it was clear that I would be under the gaze of most if not all of the class . |
| 21 | If you drew lines along the class map of England , I would be at the point where they all meet . ’ |
| 22 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 23 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 24 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 25 | ‘ One day , he would tell me , I would be in the record books and so I should remain ageless . |
| 26 | What you 've got to rea no what you got to realise is the most obvious place for somebody would be on the bed but we could n't see anybody on the bed so the only other place is under the bed . |
| 27 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
| 28 | He added that the answer was enforcement , the most effective method of which would be for The Stock Exchange to make compliance a listing condition . |
| 29 | However , many market research studies are carried out on large samples which would be beyond the reach of academic researchers and it is not unusual to find commercial surveys which contain quite valuable social information . |
| 30 | This relates to the middle-management area of decision and control which would be at the head of department and head of year level in a comprehensive school or the allowance holders in a primary school . |