Example sentences of "he would be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although the fine is severe , we were all hoping he 'd be kicked out of the club by the League . |
| 2 | Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ . |
| 3 | So that he 'd be carried out to sea by the tide without coming to the surface . " |
| 4 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 5 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 6 | Birmingham referee Mike Reed and a linesman stepped in and when Bergsson went on he was warned he would be sent off immediately if the feud continued . |
| 7 | He was in a Niagara Falls jail yesterday waiting to hear if he would be sent back to Britain after being refused entry to America . |
| 8 | Norma Thomson , secretary of New Deer Community Association , said : ‘ Perhaps whoever did the break-in knew there would n't be a policeman going back and forth and that he would be tied up at the meeting . ’ |
| 9 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 10 | It was pointless him going right through the centre because he was incurring far too much damage and eventually he would be shot down . |
| 11 | But then he would be turned down . |
| 12 | He would be heard out , and he would see the shaking heads , and he would be told that facilities and staff were tied down , knotted down , on Trident . |
| 13 | The guard — who has not been named — was told he would be blown up and his family killed if he made one false move . |
| 14 | The guard , who has not been named , was told he would be blown up and his family killed if he made one false move . |
| 15 | He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve . |
| 16 | While McEnroe , who appeared far from visibly insecure , enjoyed watching the following match between compatriots Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , a clearly embarrassed Babcock was left to confirm that if he failed to come to a press conference after his next match — against Goran Ivanisevic tonight — he would be fined up to $10,000 . |
| 17 | She would have taken Moses back to the harem where he would be brought up with others , learning to read and write the Egyptian hieroglyphic and " cursive " scripts and gaining expertise in various skills and sports ( see Acts 7:22 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ The idea was that he would be taken up a couple of hundred feet , ’ said Gavin Birkett . |
| 19 | Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm . |
| 20 | No doubt he would be woken up in good time to go to church . |