Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [be] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 2 | ‘ When I told Blixa I 'd be playing on the LP , his response was , ‘ Oh good — less work for me to do ! ’ |
| 3 | It was no place to row ashore , or I would be killed on the rocks . |
| 4 | Well ’ — he choked now with laughter — ‘ I would go in among those pigs and they would all start scratching a hole and there I would be standing on a clapboard looking down and nearly sick with the smell . |
| 5 | And she 'd be sitting on the edge of her chair with a smile stitched to her face as she willed the rest of the party to get a move-on so she could go and make sure Camille was home and safe . |
| 6 | ‘ I was afraid you 'd be waiting on the doorstep . |
| 7 | and it was like standing , and you 'd be sitting on the steps |
| 8 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |
| 9 | They were also told that at 10 o'clock next morning she would be put on a plane back to India . |
| 10 | The Galiaras were told that she would be put on a plane at 3.30 pm . |
| 11 | Mrs Beckett , announcing her candidature , said she would be standing on a ‘ modernisation manifesto ’ . |
| 12 | She would be lying on a different bed , of course . |
| 13 | For instance , we 'd be working on a style of music , like maybe rockabilly , and he 'd say , ‘ Have you ever done any psychedelic drugs ? ’ |
| 14 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 15 | A meeting of ministers from the 16 German Länder in Dresden on Dec. 14 , 1990 , discussed the possible imposition of a quota for Soviet Jewish immigrants , but on Jan. 9 , 1991 , Wolfgang Schäuble , the German Interior Minster , announced that they would be handled on a " generous case-by-case basis " . |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy claimed the move would deliver to Solaris the three volume chips likely to survive : PowerPC , Sparc and Intel as SunSoft resources are moved off the new Intel Corp version , he said , they would be dedicated on the PowerPC — McNealy said this would be ready in late 1993 and SunSoft president Ed Zander immediately stepped up to contradict him , saying the date would more likely be early next year ; few details were available and it remains to be seen who would use it and how it will be sold . |
| 17 | If they could finish the ‘ Marit ’ today , there was a good chance they would be working on the Russian boat tomorrow . |
| 18 | They would be working on the kidnapper 's instructions , the police ? |
| 19 | I have a thick wad of these letters which I would love to read out , so that they would be put on the record . |
| 20 | Even if a human pilot could get those birds up there , he 'd be flying on a kiss and a promise . |
| 21 | When he woke up , he 'd be lying on the floor of the boozer , and Sergeant Lawrence would be lifting him to his feet , dragging him outside to the panda car . |
| 22 | But she must ask ; beg even , or he 'd be knocking on the kitchen door at Jarman House , asking the Lord knew what favours . |
| 23 | At one licensed dealer that used client profile cards , the dealers scribbled fake answers on their cards , time-stamping them at any old time , despite weak threats from their dealing director that he would be checking on the tapes to see that everything was being done properly . |
| 24 | During this process it was suggested that a dummy engine be installed to save time and weight , but this idea was rejected on the grounds that the idea was for the Norseman to be as live an aircraft as it could be , and for it to taxi from the hangar in which is was being restored , across Howey Bay , to its position on the shoreline , adjacent to where it would be mounted on the pole . |
| 25 | The individual bourgeois who felt called upon to comment on public matters knew that a letter to The Times or the Neue Freie Presse would not merely reach a large part of his class and the decision makers , but , what was more important , that it would be printed on the strength of his standing as an individual . |
| 26 | I would think it would be depend on the weather . |
| 27 | It would be transmitted on the Astra satellite used by BSkyB . |
| 28 | It would be based on a variety of forms of public ownership which would enable people to be masters of their own lives and to give full play to their energy and abilities . |
| 29 | Most English politicians , on the other hand , seemed confident that Elizabeth would attempt to introduce a Protestant form of worship , although they were unsure whether it would be based on the first or second Edwardian Prayer Book . |
| 30 | It would be based on the carbon content of fuels and would have the biggest effect on the coal industry . |