Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] i " in BNC.
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1 | In two seconds you 'd be wanting me back for something . " |
2 | I 'd be wishing I 'll Christmas birthday coming |
3 | ‘ He warned me you 'd be paying me a visit . ’ |
4 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
5 | You 'd be doing me a favour . |
6 | Anyway , I really do need to catch up on some paperwork , so you 'd be doing me a favour . ’ |
7 | But meantime you 'd be doing me a favour if you did n't ring them either . |
8 | I thought you would do I thought there was something you 'd be doing I wo n't be sure now I 'm gon na put that tax disc in |
9 | If I kilt you , I 'd be killing me . ’ |
10 | The ultimate arrogance would be to say I do n't care . |
11 | Who in the hell would be ringing me at work ? |
12 | ‘ Our manager Nigel Best told me a Celtic representative from Scotland would be watching me . |
13 | Half the pregnant women on the estate would be swearing I fathered their children . |
14 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
15 | I felt sure I would never see poor Glumdalclitch again , and I knew how sad she would be to lose me . |
16 | He said that he would check my eyes , but that if there was a problem and a replacement was needed the best he could do would be to charge me half-price of £50 for the new set . |
17 | I thought about the possibility but when my friends kept saying that I would be chosen I said that I thought the selectors would go for more experience . |
18 | Another way would be to tell me what the angle is from |
19 | If I were still a Minister of my country you would be giving me real protection , day and night . |
20 | That is the question S. O. Letterman would be asking me too if he were here . |
21 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
22 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
23 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
24 | This amiable young man greeted me enthusiastically and informed me that he would be driving me himself , in his motor car which he had brought from Finland . |