Example sentences of "would be [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be a nice smell of baking and we 'd be chatting about old times or the grandchildren . |
| 2 | Normally we 'd be talking about him but because the tape recorder 's on |
| 3 | Because it must be thirty two and thirty six , mainly you 'd be talking about would n't it ? |
| 4 | And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there . |
| 5 | Certainly we can not provide a fully one hundred percent sustainable community , you 'd be talking about some vast city to move towards that , erm the re the real world is that the the hierarchy of settlements , erm all settlements , have greater or lesser degree of facilities depending on their size , and there 'll be no difference er to the new settlement , and I think to run an argument on the basis of Mr Curtis er has run it is unfair to the concept of the new settlement . |
| 6 | Because we er if , if his erm if his er desires were carried out we 'd , well we 'd be talking about thousands of pounds . |
| 7 | In June , it was n't getting dark till midnight , and we 'd be sitting about talking , not releasing what time it was , and going to bed at four in the morning when it was starting to get light again . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't suppose it would be thinking about it now , because they would probably have to join the queue like everybody else , would that be right ? |
| 9 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 10 | They were rather taken aback when they realised they would be learning about the way the planning system operates ! |
| 11 | If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 12 | Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 13 | Amy assured the concerned woman that she would be alright and the staff would be returning about llpm . |
| 14 | He would be at his mother 's and Catherine would be there too and they would be talking about her , that was all they would talk about . |
| 15 | Tadcaster is a populat has a population of around six thousand at the moment , and if the s the level of increase that is proposed were su were imposed upon Tadcaster you would be talking about a fifty percent increase in the size of the town . |
| 16 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 17 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 18 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 19 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 20 | Unless Guy came up with an acceptable explanation , the entire Court would be gossiping about them . |