Example sentences of "would be [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then after that I 'd be drinking like a pint every twenty minutes or so . |
| 2 | Even if a human pilot could get those birds up there , he 'd be flying on a kiss and a promise . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd be living in a fantasy world ! |
| 4 | ‘ If this were my life , ’ he says softly , ‘ I 'd be living in a hotel made of chocolate sponge cake and organ music . |
| 5 | ‘ Called hup this morning , ’ Willie heard him say , ‘ so if you know anyone who 'd be looking for a job let me know . |
| 6 | So if the president of my company calls from Allentown and says Ricky I 'd like to see you in my office on the thirtieth , I do n't say I 'm sorry Steve , it 's catch up day , I say what time would be convenient for you Sir , because you know , otherwise I , I 'd be looking for a job . |
| 7 | Pretty soon I 'd be putting in a claim for ten per cent of his salary . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You said that we 'd be going to a restaurant ! ’ |
| 10 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 11 | If we had really reached a state where a bloody and unprovoked attack on four unarmed members of our police provoked only glee and pleasure in the public then neither I , nor anyone else , would be living in a country we recognised . |
| 12 | However , any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a universe in which disorder decreased with time . |
| 13 | I imagined the witchdoctor would be living in a village of several rondavels surrounded by reed hedges . |
| 14 | If things had happened differently he , Lewis , would be living in a house like this or in a flat in central London with a cottage in the country as well . |
| 15 | He and Anne would be living in a house like this one , rather than that neo-Georgian palace . |
| 16 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 17 | And they would be looking for a bed for the night and it would be in the old hay shed that we would put them but there would n't be a problem . |
| 18 | That way , it would seem like someone gone mad — everyone would be looking at the sniper , no-one would be looking for a motive . |
| 19 | On the basis of this analysis , a child with severe learning difficulties might have both delayed language , in that she would be functioning at a level below that normally expected for children of her age , and a deficit if her language skills were more severely affected than other areas . |
| 20 | Whether or not Britain joined the EMS in due course , it would be operating against a background of some endemic weakness . |
| 21 | In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game . |
| 22 | Even a full house would be piffling for a town with so vast a drawing area . |
| 23 | Even a full house would be piffling for a town with so vast a drawing area . |
| 24 | But even if American consumers were exactly like their British counterparts , Brooks Brothers would be heading for a fall . |
| 25 | in comparison with what they would be paying for a market stall then it would be it 's way out of their their |
| 26 | She went on excitedly to explain how her canoe would be arriving in a week or two and she would then telephone the harbour master at Sharpness to find out when the next big bore was due . |
| 27 | Celia and Rosalind would be arriving in a week 's time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The omission of the verb gives an immediacy which would be missing from a construction such as It is a virgin scene ( where the present tense is a direct attempt to make a coding time and content time the same ) . |
| 30 | John Blair-Gould , defending , told the court she had left her £15,000-a-year job with a film distribution company a few weeks ago and would be working as a freelance , reviewing books and films . |