Example sentences of "would be [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only would you not have the time to deal with them all , but you 'd be harassing the public and getting the police a bad name ’ ( FN 23/4/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 2 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 3 | ‘ But we 'd be helping the war effort just as much in a factory would n't we ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you was her you 'd be getting the same treatment . |
| 5 | Erm you 'd be getting the chlorine off , getting hydrogen , actually |
| 6 | In school you 'd be getting the looks and all that , but here everyone 's in the same boat . |
| 7 | When he came home from college she 'd be reading The Catholic Mind . |
| 8 | He 'd be mending the fence by the garage tomorrow , Saturday . |
| 9 | The TV licensing authority in Bristol confirmed Mr Smart had been told that technically he 'd be breaking the law if he watched TV before receiving the new licence . |
| 10 | But she ca n't call herself one and if she ever took a Communion service , she 'd be breaking the law . |
| 11 | If he was Multhrop he 'd be watching the teaspoons . |
| 12 | I 'd be counting the days now , if I had n't got parole . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd want to mind who you 'd be taRing the cure from , too , ’ Frank said . |
| 14 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 15 | On the nights he was in , the house would be stuffed with similar spotty friends who 'd be staying the night with us . |
| 16 | If it wuz me lyin' there , my Ruthie 'd be ransackin' the house lookin' fer the insurance policies , t'check they wuz payed up t'date . |
| 17 | He 'd be reaching the lake soon , and then what ? |
| 18 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 19 | but , and she 's so quiet , Pauline is , if it was me I 'd be climbing the walls ! |
| 20 | They 'd be following the cart so it would be going slow would n't it . |
| 21 | They claim they were misled about the number of people who 'd be attending the show — the first to be held . |
| 22 | You 'd be walking the beat and you 'd see some kid with his backside hanging out of his trousers . |
| 23 | It 's sobering to ponder that if Cook had followed family tradition and joined the foreign service , he 'd be running the country by now . |
| 24 | They originally said they 'd be covering the works of 20 composers over the period 1984–2000 but , so far , I only know of the LPs ‘ George And James ’ ( Gershwin and Brown ) and ‘ Stars And Hank Forever ’ ( Sousa and Hank Williams ) . |
| 25 | He compounded the defence of his players with arrogance by saying that he 'd be asking the FA not to allow Buksh to referee any more Arsenal games this season . |
| 26 | Now , looks pretty horrendous alright , but if we bum data on S T , S T minus one , S T minus two and P T minus one , all actual variables , if we bung those into the microfit and ask them to form the regression , it would do , right , it would just you 'd get S T equals A plus B that 's T minus one plus C A T minus two plus D A T minus one alright , and B T So before we we 'll call that equation four right , so although it looks nasty alright it 's fairly straightforward , it 's all , all we 're doing is , we 'd be asking the computer to regress S T on constant like how you would yourself T minus one to like values T minus two and like prices okay . |
| 27 | The original objective was to liberate South Korea , it then began to unite Korea but if you raise the objective to an assault on China proper then , then you would have to quote General Ridgeway , who was a commander on the spot , er you 'd be fighting the wrong war , the wrong time and in the wrong place . |
| 28 | The original objective was to liberate South Korea , it then began to unite Korea but if you raise the objective to an assault on China proper then , then you would have to quote General Ridgeway , who was a commander on the spot , er you 'd be fighting the wrong war , the wrong time and in the wrong place . |
| 29 | You 'd lose him when you got inside , he 'd be examining the locks on the doors . |
| 30 | Then you 'd be plucking the sides to make it tidy and carrying it to make a round top sort of a roof on it . |