Example sentences of "would be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So while Mala was attending to Posi as they plotted our course to Fraxilly through the primary and secondary Netlines — a bit complex , since we 'd be shifting through eight sectors even if we took the direct route — I took charge of the cylinder . |
| 2 | You 'd be snapping , ‘ Do n't scorn me ! ’ — if you were n't so busy scorning yourself . ’ |
| 3 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
| 4 | Not only would you not have the time to deal with them all , but you 'd be harassing the public and getting the police a bad name ’ ( FN 23/4/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 5 | And do you find that if you did n't have the overtime then you , you 'd be struggling with your wage ? |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I 'd be beaten , ’ Turi said , ‘ but I began to realise I 'd chosen the right route by not cutting inside fences . |
| 7 | And then after that I 'd be drinking like a pint every twenty minutes or so . |
| 8 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 9 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Meany 's camera equipment probably went ‘ crunch ’ on this one . |
| 10 | When the 15 men from no fewer than eight countries run out in front of a packed house for the 111th Bowring Varsity match at Twickenham today ( tues ) you 'd be forgiven for thinking you were watching some sort of world invitation XV taking on Cambridge . |
| 11 | You 'd be forgiven for doing a double take . |
| 12 | YOU 'D be forgiven for thinking that LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) — translated it means ‘ Lovers on the Pont Neuf ’ — would be all hearts and flowers . |
| 13 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 14 | He wrote : ‘ To judge by a lot of the stuff written about bands like U2 , you 'd be forgiven for thinking that rock starts are the new Messiahs . |
| 15 | If they thought that Amy was at the bottom of the Broad , they 'd be dragging it . |
| 16 | Both the girls were under age for drinking , but knew they 'd be served without any trouble . |
| 17 | I thought I 'd be helping you by telling you what I did . |
| 18 | Not a vagrant , not a burglar , just fucking Orson Welles , that 's who you 'd be helping , Missus , and I wo n't need to use the phone ever . |
| 19 | ‘ But we 'd be helping the war effort just as much in a factory would n't we ? ’ |
| 20 | When we 'd be overtopped with mud and water in the trench there 'd allus be someone say something to make you laugh . |
| 21 | But if he was a war prisoner , soon they 'd be sending him back . |
| 22 | I 'd be sending for the police . |
| 23 | Take the kid to the big stores and they 'd be rigged out from top to bottom — all stamped PACA . |
| 24 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 25 | He had n't dared take part in yesterday 's Armistice Day service in the city in case he 'd be seen by any of his IRA comrades . |
| 26 | They 'd be seen as grasses or informers . |
| 27 | It has to be at night or we 'd be seen . |
| 28 | Yet who 'd have thought I 'd be given another chance like this ? she thought . |
| 29 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 30 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |