Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 2 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 3 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |
| 6 | From time immemorial it was a commonly held belief in Gaelic Scotland that where a disease occurred there would be found growing in the locality of its prevalence a plant which would cure that disease . |
| 7 | The Government would not stand in the way of a united Ireland provided it could be negotiated by democratic and peaceful means . |
| 8 | He signed the despatch with his name and rank , then handed it to Blasendorf who promised it would be delivered as swiftly as his horses could cross country . |
| 9 | Acknowledging that yesterday 's inflation figure of 7.6 per cent was ‘ far too high ’ for a Conservative government , she promised it would be brought down again . |
| 10 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |
| 11 | All that had happened was that her safe shell was broken and if it ever healed it would be filled inside with sadness . |
| 12 | ‘ to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another ’ If this point is charged or reported it may be proved by the officer in the case questioning the offender on the lines of : ‘ Did you intend to provoke the Notown football supporters into violence ? |
| 13 | When such practice first occurred it could be justified . |
| 14 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 15 | The crucial column is the derived total of offers made which can be compared with the maximum number to be made as a measure of the field 's fullness . |
| 16 | Now in the same way over the four years when you are in overall control of the Council you suggested that Conservative money , the of council tax to pay for public transport but you never spent all the money on public transport , instead of which you on as you admitted which will be used in other directions but your last budget |
| 17 | I never really believed I would be acquitted , although I am innocent . ’ |
| 18 | I think he believed I might be going to argue with him . |
| 19 | To think I imagined I might be falling in love with him ! she thought , as she went into the kitchen . |
| 20 | I admit I should have left a message , but I assumed I would be seeing you shortly , and — hell , I never expected you to mind . |
| 21 | ‘ You assumed I 'd be disgusted , and when I pretended to be you were thrilled . ’ |
| 22 | Granted you may be advertising to a sector of the market which does not have a university degree or even two GCSEs , you still have to recognize that few of them are illiterate morons . |
| 23 | If he imagined she would be disgusted by the idea he was wrong . |
| 24 | Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation . |
| 25 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | He said yesterday : ‘ I have been contacted and told they will be holding a meeting of all agencies next month to discuss the matter . |
| 27 | The men who were acquitted , Danial Winter , who 's 19 , and Wisdom Smith , who 's also 19 , had nothing to say after the judge directed they should be found not guilty . |
| 28 | The airfield was then inspected on foot by the six officers following which all were in agreement that conditions were far from satisfactory and McGuinness advised they should be prepared for accidents and possible aircraft losses . |
| 29 | If the time came they 'd be directing operations from there and they 'd want to know just who they were directing where they were placed in British society — everything . |
| 30 | The element of the image which suggests that as a matter of principled obligation all members of a group rushed to the aid of , say , an aggressive and irresponsible cattle-thief or rapist , may therefore be the product of the practical consideration that men related to an offender prudently assumed they would be held collectively responsible for his actions . |