Example sentences of "[pers pn] would be in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ One day , he would tell me , I would be in the record books and so I should remain ageless . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ She would be in the room and he would dismiss her with a flick of the hand as though she were a servant . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You would be in the dark though were you if you shut the power down . |
| 9 | Such large nests and so many of them would be in the way on the earth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the first place , I always threatened the orchestra that if they played too loudly I would simply lower them by ten centimetres ; and if they continued , then by the end of the first act they would be in the dungeon . |
| 13 | It will tend to mean retailers will keep prices lower than they would be in the absence of rivals . |
| 14 | I said that soon he would be in the Air Force and no longer a financial burden on Elfed , and , even more than that , when the war was over he would be a wage-earner at something or other , and would be able to help Elfed and Cis ; what was more , Elfed would be already well aware that the liability he resented would become an asset he welcomed . |
| 15 | By now he would be in the train , the 17.20 , that got to Chelmsford just after ten to six . |
| 16 | Unknown to her , he would be in the cafe while she ate . |
| 17 | He said , with great politeness , that he would be in the buttery , always supposing anyone wanted to know , and Tybion the Tusk got up and helped him open the door , just to be friendly . |
| 18 | Huy hoped that when he died it would be in the desert or on the river , so that the vultures or the crocodiles would take him . |
| 19 | We are delighted that is willing to stand again for election as Hon. Treasurer , but she feels it would be in the Society 's interest to have an Assistant Treasurer who would become familiar with our accounting methods and be able to take over should be away for a short period . |
| 20 | If a child subject to an EPO is not living in local authority accommodation , inquiries should establish whether it would be in the child 's best interests to be moved ( s47(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 21 | It also has a residual power to make an appointment if the child has sufficient understanding to give instructions himself and wishes to do so or if it considers that it would be in the child 's best interests to be legally represented ( s41(3) ( 4 ) ( a ) and ( b ) ) . |
| 22 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 23 | The problem is that it would be in the self-interest of any one of us to withhold our contribution , let everyone else contribute , gain free health care and keep the cash . |
| 24 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 25 | I 'd just like to reiterate Peter 's point , they have started importing coal from probably South Africa , to use at Didcot , it would be in the south , we 'd be using coal from South Africa at Didcot . |
| 26 | The costs must be sunk , otherwise the threat would not be credible and , faced with entry , it would be in the incumbent 's interest to reverse the decision . |
| 27 | It is difficult to calculate precisely the amount this would save , but we believe it would be in the order of £9.1 million in criminal cases , £3 million in family and £2 million in civil cases . |
| 28 | It would be in the nature of a liaison visit . |
| 29 | It would be in the nature of a test for her : if , as she claimed , she looked after her nephew as her own then she would not query the lack of financial support ; if she asked for it then it would be easier to force her to part with the boy . |
| 30 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |