Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [be] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If this were my life , ’ he says softly , ‘ I 'd be living in a hotel made of chocolate sponge cake and organ music . |
| 2 | I mean , personally I do n't think Terry 's very good at interviews , I think I 'd be flying in the face of public opinion if I said he was . |
| 3 | I 'd be gone in a flash , would n't I ? ’ |
| 4 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
| 5 | ‘ I never thought I 'd be seeing in the New Year with Will Carling and company in Lanzarote . |
| 6 | Pretty soon I 'd be putting in a claim for ten per cent of his salary . |
| 7 | And it seemed that I 'd be standing in the way of your freedom and your opportunities . |
| 8 | Again my mind wandered from my polishing and back onto the job I would be doing in a few hours . |
| 9 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |
| 10 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 11 | If she was n't home by then I 'd have to go and fetch her , knowing she 'd be slumped in a drunken stupor on the pavement , open-legged and snotty-nosed , against the wall of the High Fields pub . |
| 12 | Perdita , covering the bottom of the lorries with straw to protect the ponies ' feet , suddenly heard Alejandro shouting that she better dig out a pair of clean breeches and polish her boots , as she 'd be playing in the match that afternoon . |
| 13 | she 'd be climbing in the inside of it and ripping it |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd be living in a fantasy world ! |
| 15 | ‘ If you were doing oncology , you 'd be trapped in a straitjacket of protocols . ’ |
| 16 | She would be dressed in a new cotton serwal with its inches of gold and silver thread at the ankle . |
| 17 | She would be lodged in the royal palace within the Tower , with servants a-plenty to serve and chaperon her . |
| 18 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 19 | Soon , she would be left in the darkness , in the middle of an ocean , thousands of miles from anywhere . |
| 20 | She would be occupied in the attic for some time . |
| 21 | In a short while she would be installed in a quiet hotel room where she could get on with her work , and try to forget about the arrival of that frightening letter . |
| 22 | Since gilts pay a fixed annual rate of interest , you would be locking in a higher return before the rate cut . |
| 23 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 24 | That does n't mean that you would be engaged in the same boring work all the time . |
| 25 | So in fact you would be working in the shop while your wife went round ? |
| 26 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
| 27 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 28 | Typically , they would be shot in the back , throwing themselves in front of the hero , and get to die pathetically in his arms . |
| 29 | They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning . |
| 30 | I was assured that they would be covered in the clause regarding ‘ personal items and jewellery whilst away from home ’ for which an extra premium would be necessary . |