Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be looking a bit daft if it did n't . |
| 2 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
| 3 | Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources |
| 4 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 5 | get me wrong I 'd be getting a bit |
| 6 | I 'd be counting the days now , if I had n't got parole . |
| 7 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 8 | and I 'd be paying a lot more in bus fare |
| 9 | ‘ At the moment , there 's insufficient evidence to arrest anyone , ’ said Harris quietly , ‘ and if I thought you were keen on any of the other men in this case , I 'd be saying the same thing about them . ’ |
| 10 | I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought … |
| 11 | but , and she 's so quiet , Pauline is , if it was me I 'd be climbing the walls ! |
| 12 | If I were willing to unstitch the past I 'd be attempting the impossible . ’ |
| 13 | If Vadinamia had the Fraxillian cylinder , it looked like I 'd be making a safe and secure pick-up . |
| 14 | It was during the Easter holidays and the streets were full of holiday-makers — I would be seeing a lot of them in the future . |
| 15 | " But even if I did it , " said Clara , " I would be stealing the state 's money , would n't I ? |
| 16 | Now I 've had two of those rest days prior to all this so I would be owed a fortnight 's holiday pay plus three rest days . |
| 17 | But I can not take it out of store because I would be breaking the law effectively if I did . |
| 18 | ‘ Dad , ’ she accused , ‘ you never told me that I would be sharing the house with some carpenter . ’ |
| 19 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 20 | I waved Maureen off the next day , telling her I could n't wait to see her again , that I would be counting the days till her return . |
| 21 | I would be addressing a putt and instead of thinking about it some political problem would come to mind . |
| 22 | ‘ I like the exercise and , besides , I have two friends down the road in a Land Rover , ’ I said , implying that I would be given a lift . |
| 23 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 24 | I was told that I would be given the money when I got to Singapore . |
| 25 | I even began to enjoy my weekly visits to Whitechapel , where I would be given the chance to show off my new-found skills . |
| 26 | And anyway , if I monitored two babies , I would be creating the same environment for both of them , would n't I ? |
| 27 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 28 | Little did I know then that one day I would be training a fully grown bird of prey to hunt . |
| 29 | Now I would be calling a solicitor to see how I could get it dissolved on the best possible terms . |
| 30 | I never thought I would be telling a stranger this story ! |