Example sentences of "would be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marilyn said she 'd be writing to Lilian . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I told him I 'd be speaking to you soon . ’ |
| 3 | and Jehovah proceeded to go down to see what they see , to see the city and they tell that the sons of man have gods , after that Jehovah said look there are one people and there is one language for the north and this is they start to do , why now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unobtainable for them , come now let us go down and their confuse their language , he 'd be speaking to angels now would n't he |
| 4 | Sir er you hinted that er if there are to be further written representations you 'd be looking to directing a cutoff date , and you hinted at I think tomorrow as being one possibility sir , so that you could leave this enquiry on Wednesday with all the papers you need and receive nothing more by way of written representation , evidence or any other documentation whatsoever . |
| 5 | I think if I were fourteen or fifteen years old looking towards leaving school , average ability , I 'd be thinking to myself ‘ Well , what 's the point of working at school ? |
| 6 | Working with with the with the cow man , but I very soon got tired , I 'd be begging to be allowed back into the stable because the horses were my first love . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All the way I 'd be talking to myself in my head , saying , ‘ Um , yes , that 's a so-and-so , ’ practising my identification skills . |
| 9 | According to Lucy : ‘ It 's a fing like , I 'd be talking to Carol , right , and she 's with Ann … ’ |
| 10 | so you the person you 'd be talking to would be erm trying to put you off to stop you getting something a a direct replacement |
| 11 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me a fortnight before he came out that he 'd be coming to me . ’ |
| 13 | Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding . |
| 14 | I 'd be owing to the stage Mike ! |
| 15 | If they were working they 'd be going to discos , but because they ca n't work they stay at home , and because they 're girls they do the housework , though they feel they are doing somebody else 's housework . |
| 16 | The assistant governor [ AG ] who I saw four days after I got into prison told me I 'd be going to Cookham Wood or Bullwood Hall in two to three weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ You said that we 'd be going to a restaurant ! ’ |
| 18 | I do n't think I 'd be going to court if I had anything to be concerned about . |
| 19 | She still had n't admitted to the other woman that she was n't at all sure she 'd be returning to the music business . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd want to mind who you 'd be talkin' to in this place , ’ he protested . |
| 21 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 23 | It said that a strike would be damaging to the company and to its staff . |
| 24 | The Alliance wanted television yet feared that it would be damaging to them , as Alliance MPs are allowed such a small share of parliamentary time . |
| 25 | ACAS refused to recommend recognition partly because to do so would arouse strong opposition from the other unions with a risk of industrial action which would be damaging to the industry . |
| 26 | We are determined to resist calls for a fortress Europe , which would be damaging to world trade . |
| 27 | As I am constantly told by many who get in touch with me , uncertainty and delay would be damaging to the whole of the further and higher education sector . |
| 28 | However , he added , like all ministers , the Chancellor would be moving to a more environment-friendly machine in the fullness of time . |
| 29 | Instead , there was an announcement , accompanied by a great hoo-hah , that the authority and its 800 jobs would be moving to the bay . |
| 30 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |