Example sentences of "we would [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise we 'd be crashing into stars by now , ’ he added gloomily .
2 With exuberant lack of tact , Mr Dienstbier says , ‘ From NATO we want to know that , if we were threatened , we 'd be treated at least as Kuwait , if necessary . ’
3 I told him then that when we came to England we 'd be staying at this hotel .
4 Otherwise we 'd be deprived of , among others , our own darling from Down Under , Dame Edna Everage .
5 When we 'd be overtopped with mud and water in the trench there 'd allus be someone say something to make you laugh .
6 Right so we 'd be settle for how much we 're going to get paid .
7 Otherwise there 'd already be a truce , and we 'd be saved from this mess . ’
8 You know , if we were in Malaysia , we 'd be hanging from the light fittings for this . ’
9 ‘ Then we 'd be done for .
10 There would be a nice smell of baking and we 'd be chatting about old times or the grandchildren .
11 So while Mala was attending to Posi as they plotted our course to Fraxilly through the primary and secondary Netlines — a bit complex , since we 'd be shifting through eight sectors even if we took the direct route — I took charge of the cylinder .
12 Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’
13 And on the front sheet o entitled affordable housing , we see there that in the case of Hambleton we 'd be looking at forty one percent , of the remaining dwellings being unaffordable being affordable houses , down to York where it goes up to ninety percent .
14 Erm first of all Chairman I would confirm that it is our view that with a provision of six thousand five hundred for Harrogate district , we do n't think we 'd be looking at a new settlement to serve our needs , erm , having said that , we support the Greater York strategy , and we we certainly the level of provision erm for Greater York as proposed by the County Council , er but leaving aside for one moment the issue of a new settlement , it is our view that we 'll be able to accommodate the level of growth that I think is anticipated in our district , erm , within the figures , and I 'm referring specifically to N Y one , and the table on the last page where there 's an indication there of the sort of of er housing numbers that would would have to be accommodated within Harrogate district , and and our part of Greater York is essentially a rural character consisting of a a number of small villages , so there there we have er a total figure of two hundred dwellings to be provided within our part of Greater York , that basically represents erm existing commitments and a a yield from small sites in the future , perhaps conversions , and we'r we 're quite happy with that .
15 We 'd be looking at making forty percent margin .
16 But what we had in mind in looking at this through the the local plan was that er we 'd be looking at specific end users to see what the benefits were of those those end users and to assess those benefits against any environmental harm that there would be and strategy as a whole .
17 I think er it 's got to be er linked certainly to the rate of inflation , er and in some way linked to the way that the fire service er has their pay formula , and they 're actually linked to 25% of the top 25% of schooled manual workers , er we 'd be looking at some sort of deal like that , or if it was n't er tied up with percentage rates I think we need , definitely need an independent pay review body for the ambulance service .
18 But then we 'd be looking for francs .
19 . They do a very very useful job , we 'd be lost without them .
20 This is , it it 's not the attitude that we need to be taking , and there 's no where else we 'd be supporting in , in in this , er , opposition to this particular European Council of Directive .
21 I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid
22 In June , it was n't getting dark till midnight , and we 'd be sitting about talking , not releasing what time it was , and going to bed at four in the morning when it was starting to get light again . ’
23 so I 'd be paying , we 'd be paying for our petrol which would n't be a lot different to what it is now really
24 For instance , we 'd be working on a style of music , like maybe rockabilly , and he 'd say , ‘ Have you ever done any psychedelic drugs ? ’
25 is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death .
26 Normally we 'd be talking about him but because the tape recorder 's on
27 And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there .
28 Because we er if , if his erm if his er desires were carried out we 'd , well we 'd be talking about thousands of pounds .
29 They might get work in , like construction work and the making of roads and that kind of thing … but how long would that last for and we 'd be left with what , like you do n't know what you would be left with in the end , ’ said Mary Catherine , who concluded ‘ I 'm not one to stop progress by any manner of means but I do n't think gold mining is progress .
30 ‘ Obviously if all five of us went out and walked past a school at home time , we 'd be asking for trouble .
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