Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said you 'd ne , I used to say to you get on with your work he said and you 'd have a pencil in your mouth he said and you 'd be gazing out the window . |
| 2 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 3 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 4 | ‘ The agent was forever calling him , wanting to know if , this time , you 'd be taking up the ticket . |
| 5 | Super Channel wanted to run it but were told by the I.T.C. they 'd be pulled off the air if they did . |
| 6 | you know , they 'd be put on the other register . |
| 7 | If the choice was mine , I 'd be sounding out the likes of Larry Laoretti , shock winner of the U.S. Seniors Open six months ago . |
| 8 | Molly and Peggy introduced children 's classes from the earliest days of Medau — how fascinating it would be to turn back the clock and take a look at those Hampstead and Sidcup children ! |
| 9 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 10 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 11 | Today , the Home Secretary announced that Thames Valley and West Mercia police would be trying out the extendable baton . |
| 12 | Soon they would be filling in the space with houses again . |
| 13 | Well I do n't think you can expect the County Council and the structure plan authority to have an idea of where the allocations are going because that would be taking on the role of the local plan preparation authority . |
| 14 | However , I received the impression that the society was more interested in a scheme for a new RUC complaints procedure and that it was not anticipated that it would be taking up the Black affair in a major way . |
| 15 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 16 | One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act . |
| 17 | Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside . |
| 18 | WISDEN 'S appearance this year for the 129th time ( John Wisden , £21.50 hardback , £18.50 soft ) coincided with the announcement that Graeme Wright would be handing over the stewardship of one of cricket 's greatest traditions to Matthew Engel . |
| 19 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 20 | And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock . |
| 21 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 22 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 23 | Used be able to sit in the car would be go up the back do n't they ? |
| 24 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
| 25 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 26 | One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) . |
| 27 | The sea would start to roar at night , and the curlews would be hurled down the glen like dun-coloured bullets . |
| 28 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 29 | Instead of a ‘ Lock ’ ( or 9,000 cu. ft. of water ) being lost by the passage of a barge ( or barges ) through the ordinary wide lock — only about 90 cu. ft. or one — 100th part of a lock , would be passed down the Canal by the passage of one barge down the Canal and another barge up . |
| 30 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |