Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be speaking with her . ’ |
| 2 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 3 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 4 | If I , the child groupie , was noticed — and I tried to make myself invisible — I would be treated in kindly enough fashion , but as something of a curiosity . |
| 5 | It was no place to row ashore , or I would be killed on the rocks . |
| 6 | Tomorrow I would be consumed with guilt . ’ |
| 7 | Friends who were not knitters had been amazed that I had never met any of the people that I would be staying with . |
| 8 | I told the housekeeper that I would be staying for several days , and then went straight to my aunt 's room . |
| 9 | 6 Later , in a more morbid vein , he confessed : " I suspected all along that there was little possibility that I would be forgiven for making known publicly that Stalin disgusted me , and that I could not stomach the Nazi-Soviet pact and the events in Finland . |
| 10 | I would be shot before dawn . |
| 11 | Because of that it was inevitable that sooner or later I would be delegated by Steve and Paul to fence some of the gear they 'd purloined . |
| 12 | I would be fed into the police computer , where it would join the details already stored by the hundreds of other crossings we had made . |
| 13 | Whether I would be justified in couching this political criticism in terms of cognitive deprivation — that he lacks ‘ cognitive flexibility ’ or ‘ can not distinguish between his own thought about something ( e.g. capitalism ) and the thing itself ( Greenfield , p. 173 ) — seems to me doubtful . |
| 14 | The case really turned on section 78 , as to which the judge had said ‘ whilst accepting the impressive evidence of the doctor , I do not think I would be justified in excluding this confession , ’ adding ‘ I do not think that section 78 really is aimed at , in truth , the circumstances here appertaining . ’ |
| 15 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 16 | But I love them , I would be lost without them . |
| 17 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 18 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 19 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 20 | Even allowing for the cost of the curtain tape and cotton required , I calculated that I would be overcharged by £80 . |
| 21 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 22 | A few days later I would be leaving for England . |
| 23 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 24 | ‘ And you immediately assumed that you had outstayed your welcome and I would be thinking to myself , ‘ Mon Dieu , now I have to face that idiotic English girl . ’ |
| 25 | ( In later years , adult years , while sitting in London stuffed with wholemeal digestives soaked in tea , I would be filled with the wheat and candour of this smell , and I would hold the digestive as long as I could in my mouth , as if aiming to grasp its exact ingredient and texture , to become its body and its recipe ) . |
| 26 | There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives . |
| 27 | From the Federation 's point of view , er I have substantially difficult , a difficulty , in guiding you as to where the new settlement ought to be , because in effect I would be choosing between members , and that is a certain route to my unemployment , if I were to do that , and I do n't wish to be unemployed . |
| 28 | I would be looking for someone like the Beresfords ' youngest daughter — innocence , childlike freshness and beauty . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I said after the European Championships I would be looking for a much more settled squad , ’ said Taylor . |
| 30 | ‘ You did n't convince Burun to let me lead it by telling him that I would be looking for machines , ’ he said finally . |