Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And we 'd be zipping all over the place , I do n't doubt it , with them crying ‘ Yippee ! ’ and whatnot .
2 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 .
3 It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says .
4 ‘ I mean , do you think they 'd be nestling all over the roof like a tea-cosy ?
5 She 'd be sighted occasionally at the aerobics class as we went to breakfast .
6 She did n't want anyone giving her sympathy , otherwise she 'd be blubbing all over the stage .
7 And he 'd be walking all over the place seen anywhere , Tommy on the wall and they 'd shout Tommy on the wall
8 In view of future events it is important to note the absence of detail on agriculture , even though this had been designated a special economic activity which would be handled completely at the supranational level .
9 Whereupon he would be enrolled forthwith in the Tenth Company , of tyro Marines .
10 In nineteen forty two The Lady proudly announced that the president of the Board of Trade had cut his large bath towels in half and he hoped his sacrifice would be repeated all over the country .
11 I would be employed also by the WEA and as a Trade Union lecturer ( which , as far as I know , I still am ) .
12 They would be based increasingly on the operating lease and take the form of instruments focused on the capital markets .
13 A White Paper on defence released on May 21 , 1991 , suggested that future defence considerations would be based less on the South Pacific , as had been the case over the last six years , and more on New Zealand taking an active part in global security matters .
14 These would be pushed away by the radiation from the Sun , taking with them any payload attached to them .
15 Therefore , a second reading would be pushed further to the right side of the network , requiring less reader effort ( cI ) .
16 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 .
17 The lesson of the factory siren would be heard too in the sciences , leading to the horrible clockwork universe of Laplace and his successors .
18 A BS spokesman said he could see no possible solution to the problem at this stage but the issue would be examined closely over the next six months .
19 In the case of the Watford and Foxton Locks , the line of ascent would be longer than in the sample , say , by only 1 min. and 4 minutes respectively : and the cost of the works would be increased only by the cost of increased lengths of slopes or inclines ; that is — 24 feet and 100 feet respectively .
20 The Mountie , unperturbed , said he would be proceeding vigorously with the enquiries into both Angelica 's and Ricky 's deaths and perhaps he would have news for everyone in Winnipeg .
21 In some instances constraints would be imposed indirectly through the imposition of a duty to provide reasons ; in other cases the courts hinted at the limits they would set , such as if the decision was perverse or made in bad faith .
22 How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury .
23 It stated that matters of defence , foreign policy , energy , communications , transport and the union budget would be decided jointly between the centre and the republics but in all other matters republican laws would have priority over union laws .
24 If , on the other hand , Lord Kilbrandon 's suggestion of a single offence of unlawful homicide were adopted , the crucial questions of culpability would be decided solely at the sentencing stage by the judge .
25 If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house .
26 On the basis that ‘ the bomber will always get through ’ officials within Whitehall made alarmist predictions that the declaration of war with Germany would be followed immediately by the devastation of cities , epidemics , disruption of food supplies , panic among the civilian population , the breakdown of essential services , and so on .
27 After the bypass completion the parish would be looking forward to the de-trunking of the A3 which would become a B road .
28 Here each unit would be taught separately from the others although links could be made at the end of the unit .
29 Watch your knuckles on the door-frame , ’ warned Tom , as they half slid , half carried the big mattress safely out of the door , then out on to the veranda and down the back stairs to where it would be stored safely off the ground in a large store-room next to the laundry .
30 The wood opposite was smoking with dusk again and I was looking forward to seeing the orderly , when my door was opened and I was told that I would be moved across to the main camp at once .
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