Example sentences of "would be [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dealing manager would be hovering breathing down the dealers ' necks like Big Brother , nodding approvingly if they sounded convincing , or else shouting : " You need to be more fucking aggressive " ( so the client could hear him in the background ) . |
| 2 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 3 | Clients who rang in during telephone bingo would be kept hanging on indefinitely . |
| 4 | And there was no way of getting a message out to say I could n't get out , so she would be left hanging about waiting hopefully . |
| 5 | The start of the game , with Scotland camped in Malta 's half , appeared to imply that the night would be spent wearing down a Maltese defence which used Buttigieg as a sweeper behind four other bodies . |
| 6 | At other times , the demands of his body clock and society coincided but then much of his time would be spent catching up on lost sleep . |