Example sentences of "they would [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think if you asked most players in England if they 'd like to swap places with me they 'd be jumping over the top of each other to do it . |
| 2 | If they failed to reach the fuses in time , they 'd be killed with the rest on the wall , and only a little earlier than the men of both sides who would open fire , without doubt , claiming treachery . |
| 3 | Well I thought they 'd be protected by the fence . |
| 4 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 5 | A blunt letter last week told all clubs without floodlights that unless they were up and shining by 1993–94 and to 120 lux , a higher standard than many existing installations they 'd be banned from the FA Cup . |
| 6 | When the refugees landed in Havana , they would be given by the Hamburg-Amerika line a receipt for the unused part of the fare . |
| 7 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 8 | Dexter 's strictures , about the need to make progress soon , because otherwise they would be withdrawn from the case , fizzed in her mind . |
| 9 | It was arranged that later in the afternoon they would be conducted to the Monastery of Saint James ; they would be lodged that night in the village , and would return again to the church the following day for their devotions . |
| 10 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 11 | The petrol fumes could be far more dangerous to your fish , especially as they would be pumped into the tanks by your air pump , as well as settling on the water . |
| 12 | Where floor joists are built into the part wall , they would have to be cut off so that they would be supported by the new well , completely free from the party wall . |
| 13 | Unless we have very specific information , they would be cleared off the docks within two days . ’ |
| 14 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 15 | Not a piece would be saved , but they would be lost to the French as well . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that , given the current level of resources , both financial and human , the Council would be in a position to initiate central development of these courses in the near future , and it would therefore be some time before they would be incorporated into the new style provision . |
| 17 | It had to be decided whether the Vienna Convention would include provisions on objective regimes , or whether they would be subsumed under the general prescription . |
| 18 | Typically , they would be shot in the back , throwing themselves in front of the hero , and get to die pathetically in his arms . |
| 19 | There were changes to be made , a BMA spokesman said , but they would be made within the existing system . |
| 20 | If there were general laws governing the history of life , it was assumed that they would be revealed by the fossil record . |
| 21 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 22 | They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning . |
| 23 | I was assured that they would be covered in the clause regarding ‘ personal items and jewellery whilst away from home ’ for which an extra premium would be necessary . |
| 24 | They would be pitted against the sect 's estimated strength , obtained from his questioning of Louise , of the twelve main heavies , known as Apostles , and a further forty to fifty lesser nasties in the bullying hierarchy , who gloried in the title of Disciples . |
| 25 | He asked if Hall had forgotten that it was intended eventually to extend the new buildings as far as Great George Street where they would be seen with the Abbey and the Palace of Westminster . |
| 26 | Willmott ( 1966 ) chose to use young Australians and New Zealanders in his research into the activities of adolescent boys , on the assumption that they would be seen by the boys as neutral as far as class and social background were concerned . |
| 27 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |
| 28 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 29 | On Norwegian ships , if someone was a bad killer they would be locked in the holds , they said . |
| 30 | The workers were to receive their annual bonus for 1989 and they would be reinstated in the SATS pension scheme , but they were forced to forfeit benefits for the period of the strike . |