Example sentences of "'d be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 2 | Well he 'd be getting up about oh shortly after five in the morning , to er feed his horses , muck out the stable , and groom them . |
| 3 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 4 | And then you 'd go you 'd be swanking then , your flap had gone you know . |
| 5 | In America we 'd be holding out banners for them in the streets of their home town . |
| 6 | It 's lucky I was sent here , to Hepzibah , or I 'd be pushing up daisies . |
| 7 | 3 Can you give us an approximate idea of sales you 'd be expecting over a three-year period ? |
| 8 | We do n't anticipate the same rate of increase that we saw last year , but we 'd be expecting probably somewhere in the region of a 10 to 15 per cent increase over the coming year . |
| 9 | Unfortunately you 'd be expecting too much : the game was poor back in Issue 3 when it received a very sad 32% . |
| 10 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 11 | They 'd be hiding down their hole . |
| 12 | They 'd be hiding down their hole , would n't they ? |
| 13 | He said you 'd ne , I used to say to you get on with your work he said and you 'd have a pencil in your mouth he said and you 'd be gazing out the window . |
| 14 | Yeah , sort of thing that he 'd be writing down |
| 15 | Also Mackie would be coming with us and we 'd be picking up Fiona . |
| 16 | He 's the last person you 'd be thinking you 'd be picking up . |
| 17 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 18 | We 'd be living together like in the old days . |
| 19 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 20 | And we 'd be zipping all over the place , I do n't doubt it , with them crying ‘ Yippee ! ’ and whatnot . |
| 21 | and stuff and they 'd be shouting down they were all like , they were all real East End barrow boys and , and just , it was exactly like the film , just talking talking talking all the time on two phones and like , and like I was just so scared to go in there because I , if you do anything wrong they just shout immediately . |
| 22 | She 'd explained that he 'd be staying away for the two nights , which he 'd never done before ; she only hoped she 'd explained it well enough . |
| 23 | Mr MacKay phoned last night , just after I got in , to say that he and Kirsty were in Edinburgh and that they 'd be staying there until further notice . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ She 'd be nosin' in on us , ’ said Carrie . |
| 25 | For the best midfielder in the country I 'd be looking closer to 5–6 mil especially if he went to Rangers or abroad — but personally I would n't sell him , so going on past experience that means Wilko will get rid of him before the end of the season . |
| 26 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought you 'd be looking forward to it . |
| 28 | certainly I think er we 'd be looking perhaps for a minimum of er er of one mile but I ca n't advise you on any level of agreement as to as to what any definition of it . |
| 29 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean , do you think they 'd be nestling all over the roof like a tea-cosy ? |