Example sentences of "[pers pn] would be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so I think I would be between the golf and and erm the medical side . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you drew lines along the class map of England , I would be at the point where they all meet . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ One day , he would tell me , I would be in the record books and so I should remain ageless . |
| 8 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 9 | Although Ruth now knew that she would be on the moor throughout the coming winter , and perhaps if she was lucky see the first , early signs of spring , she knew she was now taking her farewell of its chief beauty . |
| 10 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 11 | She would be at the station just in time to catch the train . |
| 12 | He knew by then that he would kill her , because when his telephone rang Edouard said she would be at the museum . |
| 13 | Ruby had said she would be at the office again next morning by which time she expected Rain to have found something more profitable for her than keys . |
| 14 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 15 | But , worst of all , she would not be able to take her unfortunate friend to be changed back to his normal self , and this was the only night of the whole year when she would be in the presence of a magician . |
| 16 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 17 | ‘ She would be in the room and he would dismiss her with a flick of the hand as though she were a servant . ’ |
| 18 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
| 19 | No , she said , I 've been there yesterday , but er I lost a brooch , and I wish you would be on the look out for it . |
| 20 | You would be at the mercy of the hall 's acoustics and ideally you would need to practise a bit beforehand . |
| 21 | And in a jiffy you would be in the garden , and in another jiffy you would be through the front gate , and in yet another jiffy you would be exploring the marvellous Forest of Sin all by yourself . |
| 22 | You would be in the dark though were you if you shut the power down . |
| 23 | Had not the Prime Minister himself said , and here I quote : ‘ We would be at the heart of Europe . ’ |
| 24 | But the corporation says that 5000 jobs could be created by the scheme , although few of them would be at the airport itself . |
| 25 | Such large nests and so many of them would be in the way on the earth . |
| 26 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 27 | Thereafter they would be into the East March , and following the enemy would be less straightforward , with the country opening out and various routes possible — into the Merse , down the Scots side of Tweed , down the English side , or southwards into the Till valley of Northumberland . |
| 28 | Before long they would be off the map . |
| 29 | They would be in the North Kent grazing marshes , an extension to the South Downs ESA , the Hampshire Avon Valley , the River Burn catchment in Northern Ireland , the North Staffordshire Moors , the whole of Anglesey , the Forest of Bowland near Preston , Orkney and Shetland , and both the Inner and Outer Hebrides . |
| 30 | The sky clouded , grew overcast and heavy , and they waited patiently for the rain to start in on them again , knowing they would be in the warmth of Ivrigar by nightfall . |