Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never dreamed I would be here when I was lying in bed getting the chemotherapy with a five to ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 2 | I would be too if I did n't know the lad . |
| 3 | Did Florian think she would be here if the name had occurred in the almost six months of correspondence between her and Giles ? |
| 4 | A year ago Chloe was a pretty little girl and she would be now but for this man , eighteen year old Jason Levy . |
| 5 | That means it is unlikely there would be more than three . |
| 6 | At one time there would be more than thirty children and two teachers . |
| 7 | The most pessimistic forecast is that they wo n't do that until 1996 , by which time there would be more than four million out of work . |
| 8 | Now that their good uncle of Pembroke and natural guardian was gone there would be more than one pair of noble and greedy eyes turned on their fat marcher holdings . |
| 9 | There would be more when she came back . |
| 10 | There would be less than five feet between the massive engines . |
| 11 | I hesitate to use adjectives as to what they would be like if they did n't spend at that level , but we believe it is possible for them to do so and there is something wrong with their spending levels if they do n't do it . |
| 12 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 13 | He would be here if he was not in prison . ’ |
| 14 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 15 | Tiredness was frequently a good excuse for the moods in which he would be less than charming. , |
| 16 | Instead , he gave the number he might have dialled to a colleague and said he would be there unless at home . |
| 17 | She asked whether he would be there when she got back and he said : ‘ Yes . |
| 18 | I think it would be best now to tell you what happened this afternoon . |
| 19 | I think it would be best if I went somewhere else . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It would be best if we continued this conversation elsewhere . ’ |
| 21 | Maybe it would be best if you came over here . ’ |
| 22 | Now , if you 're not going to order another drink quietly then I think it would be best if you went on your way . ’ |
| 23 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 24 | I think it would be best if you came across as nobly resigned : ‘ How could she stoop to do this to me ’ — something along those lines — without going into too much detail . |
| 25 | In the preceding section it was accepted without question that if experiments were wasteful , presumably with or without animals , it would be best if they did not take place . |
| 26 | I 'm sure it would be best if you both went , deferred this interview until a more suitable occasion . ’ |
| 27 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Walker thought , as I 'd come to see you before , it would be best if I came again . |
| 30 | It would be best if Rain called them also . |