Example sentences of "would be [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the girls were under age for drinking , but knew they 'd be served without any trouble . |
| 2 | He had n't dared take part in yesterday 's Armistice Day service in the city in case he 'd be seen by any of his IRA comrades . |
| 3 | Otherwise there 'd already be a truce , and we 'd be saved from this mess . ’ |
| 4 | She added : ‘ I never thought I 'd be living like this when I married Charles . |
| 5 | I told him then that when we came to England we 'd be staying at this hotel . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In reality they would be , they 'd be moving onto another area . |
| 8 | When I push her off me and over she whispers that she thought I 'd be tired at this hour of night . |
| 9 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 10 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 11 | Certainly we can not provide a fully one hundred percent sustainable community , you 'd be talking about some vast city to move towards that , erm the re the real world is that the the hierarchy of settlements , erm all settlements , have greater or lesser degree of facilities depending on their size , and there 'll be no difference er to the new settlement , and I think to run an argument on the basis of Mr Curtis er has run it is unfair to the concept of the new settlement . |
| 12 | Like I 'd be talking like this and suddenly it 'll go . |
| 13 | There 'd be so many other people around that she 'd be cushioned to some degree from the effect of his presence , she had reasoned . |
| 14 | Where was the rational scientist she 'd hoped she 'd be working under this last year ? |
| 15 | The band were taking a break from each other , but they 'd be working on some new material soon with a view to releasing a new song as a single to coincide with Reading . |
| 16 | He said well he used to go and he 'd sort of look up at it , and he 'd sort of think about how he was gon na put it in there he said then he 'd be going like this then he 'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he 'd put it in like that and these other old boys are going like this with full hands you know ? |
| 17 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 18 | The chaos would be compounded by some schools claiming grant-maintained status . |
| 19 | It remains to be seen whether the changes were that dramatic , but the new dispensation was certainly to mean that sociological themes and realism generally would be handled with more care . |
| 20 | In reality , the unhappy experiences of United Motors at its Dublin plant had effectively ensured that no major future expansion would be undertaken in that enigmatic country for many years . |
| 21 | In February 1284 , Constance de Béarn , vicomtesse of Marsan , complained that her claim to the comté of Bigorre had been assigned a hearing by Jean de Grilly , seneschal of Gascony , at Langon in the Bazadais because , she alleged , he knew that ‘ the customs of Bazadais were against her , and that the opposing parties would be aided by those customs ’ . |
| 22 | Otherwise the men of Scotland Yard would be moving in all directions . |
| 23 | BSL would be enhanced by this recognition and use . |
| 24 | The volume may be judged by an anecdote of a teacher in Massachusetts , a comparatively liberal state , which has come only lately to such activity and to a degree which would be surpassed by many other states . |
| 25 | Soon the drawings of people with hunched shoulders , their heads bowed , would be filled with this drama . |
| 26 | Some dealers , all sitting together , would be listening to these lines for hours on end . |
| 27 | The scenes were acted swiftly in her mind : when Frere turned in bewilderment to Emilia the woman would deny that any such confidence had been exchanged ; accused of mischief , Louisa would be forgiven by neither ; the ‘ intolerable slander ’ ( for such it would be called ) would furnish a pretext for Emilia 's immediate departure from Munding ; and Frere , if he remained , would be friendless . |
| 28 | She was , however , able to describe and explain the scenario that would be repeated in most of Nicholson 's most spectacular films — where he personally falls in love with his co-star . |
| 29 | No real Jamaican , one might feel , would be fooled by this . |
| 30 | Varieties and eventually species would be formed despite any tendency for interbreeding with the main body of the population in the centre . |