Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past
2 If Dennis dumped her , Karen and I would be another Trish and Brian .
3 This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't .
4 But if you went in the horse box on your single you 'd be all day getting there .
5 you 'd be all pooey !
6 She would be all silver , he gold , and —
7 She was deceitful , was Shirley : downstairs , with Mr and Mrs Harper , she would be another girl , helpful , quiet , obsequious , prim , in her neat , absurdly old-fashioned blouses and skirts , her hair tied neatly back in bunches .
8 If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute !
9 But it does n't pay to be too jumpy , and run away from every approaching shape , or there 'd be little time left for anything else .
10 I said , I said , I did n't think there 'd be much discussion over this .
11 Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari .
12 ‘ I do n't think there 'd be much point in trying to explain it to you now . ’
13 There 'd be some story then .
14 That there 'd be some justice .
15 I could always retire on disablement pension , find some quiet town , a town on a river , where there 'd be some fishing .
16 If she made her estate more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds there 'd be some tax payable , so it 's a question of how much you 've got and both estates have got that exemption of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds .
17 Right , there 'd be some X squared in it .
18 maybe the folk There 'd be some arrangement made to get there but what it was I ca n't remember .
19 We 'd marked every tyre , but sometimes we 'd fish the wrong one out ; then there 'd be some swearing .
20 I half expected that when we pitched camp for the night there 'd be some sort of ceremony — I do n't know , burning a bundle of clothes or whatever .
21 There 'd be more enticement if they improved the food . ’
22 Antoine said faintly , ‘ I thought there 'd be more time .
23 If he did n't get away now , he 'd only be waylaid by the others , there 'd be more whiskies , and it would be all hours before he 'd get to his lodgings and the letter from Elizabeth .
24 There was two bullocks , you see and four sheep and two pigs hung there , though there 'd be more pigs inside the place , this was show .
25 That way there 'd be less chance of getting caught .
26 And if we put a little bit more effort into specifying requirements more tightly , then there 'd be less argument at the end of the day as to whether we 've done a good job or a bad job .
27 And I thought there 'd be less fuss if I — ’
28 I said do you , do you think there 'd be any discount er with it being a block booking ?
29 ‘ My sister 's getting married next week and I wanted to know whether there 'd be any chance of a spot of leave . ’
30 ‘ Just at the moment , Prentice , I do n't think there 'd be any shortage of volunteers to help you on your way , if you were serious . ’
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