Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd be helping you by telling you what I did . |
| 2 | Well I , I 'd be wearing them at weekends , so , you know just , just just slouching around in really , well you know , perhaps , cycling yeah . |
| 3 | ‘ I really prefer the idea of an older man or even a bedridden man — even a person totally incapacitated — because at least when you bought him a watch you 'd know you 'd be wearing it in a week or two yourself . |
| 4 | ‘ When I discovered you 'd be accompanying him to Margrida 's lunch party , I decided that the only way I could handle it was by avoiding you . ’ |
| 5 | And I knew that I 'd be seeing it in my more dejected moments for a long time to come . |
| 6 | You 'd be tackling it as someone who was brought up to perpetuate it . |
| 7 | Well we can tell him how much we 'd be charging them to . |
| 8 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 9 | The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered . |
| 10 | Cookie would be coining it at the greengrocer 's stall , munching fruit and putting on the courtesy act to old ladies . |
| 11 | The distribution of these consonants would be rather limited , but the main problem would be fitting them into the pattern of syllable structure . |
| 12 | Who in the hell would be ringing me at work ? |
| 13 | That bastard Montgomery would be expecting him in Retford before long , with the results of his enquiries . |
| 14 | She glanced at her watch ; already it was well past four and Iris would be expecting her at five . |
| 15 | ‘ We also wanted to make sure someone would be collecting her in Germany . |
| 16 | However , a more practical way of looking at D dorian would be to compare it to D major . |
| 17 | Some people back there would be cursing us for raising so much dust . |
| 18 | It could be argued that if these children were not getting their ‘ dangerous ’ ideas from television , they would be getting them from films , comics and magazines , not to mention their parents ( not that that is an argument for unlimited viewing for children ) . |
| 19 | The best precaution would be to deposit them with the bank . |
| 20 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 21 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 22 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 23 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps the thing to do would be to translate it into French and back again . |
| 25 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 26 | Fenella would be thinking it without anybody to suggest it to her . |
| 27 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |
| 28 | Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two . |
| 29 | Made them envy the lucky swells who would be escorting her to nightclubs and restaurants , but also gave them a sense that she was n't stuck up , that she was a genuine person . |
| 30 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |