Example sentences of "would be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm remember the hay we would be turning it w with pitchforks you know , and erm not a well goo drying day but you had to risk turning it and hoping that it 'd be dry but er it would be raining again the following day . |
| 2 | At that moment her Arabic was even poorer than mine , for she was new to the household , but on my next visit she would be rattling away in this throaty language and I would be struggling as usual . |
| 3 | If I turned precisely one hundred and eighty degrees I would be facing where I 'd come from . |
| 4 | Something would be sticking out would hit on something so when the wood , your feet in the shoe , that would make a hole in the , in the front . |
| 5 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 6 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 7 | At very high temperatures , particles would be moving around so fast that they could escape any attraction toward each other due to nuclear or electromagnetic forces , but as they cooled off one would expect particles that attract each other to start to clump together . |
| 8 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 9 | But this would be moving in and making up the message in the style of the ‘ missing ’ letters in Poor People , the first story of all . |
| 10 | According to Jimmy , Mr Massingham himself , the owner of the whole Massingham empire , would be moving in too . |
| 11 | ‘ She asked me how I was and when I would be moving in to the cottage . ’ |
| 12 | That was in 1984 , a year before Charlton hit the road to Selhurst and Upton Parks , and two years before Walsh signed on and decided to live in SE7 , because : ‘ I was promised we would be moving home to our own ground and wanted to live amongst fans dying to get back . ’ |
| 13 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 14 | These high temperatures would have meant that the particles in the universe would be moving very fast and would have high energies . |
| 15 | Even as glowing profiles of the 39-year-old cricketer were published and broadcast saying how close he was to his family , he knew he would be moving out . |
| 16 | You would be wasting not only the therapist 's time but your own money too . |
| 17 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 18 | Simple arithmetic told us that even if we gained the summit we would be stumbling back down in the dark like late cinema-goers trying to find their seats . |
| 19 | All these thoughts and many more were racing through my head as I polished the silver teapot which she would be drinking out of . |
| 20 | But that would be implying Why not you ? |
| 21 | I do n't know if I can answer that to be absolutely honest I I mean I really feel that erm that would be reading too much into the decision that that our members took at that time . |
| 22 | Soon the long , light evenings would be luring yet more customers away from the stuffy cinema . |
| 23 | It may look easy from the safety of the burn 's heathery banks , but you would be wringing out your underpants if you found yourself clinging to near-vertical rock at the crest of the ridge by pursuing such a daft route . |
| 24 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 25 | Today , the Home Secretary announced that Thames Valley and West Mercia police would be trying out the extendable baton . |
| 26 | Yes , I would hope that er this is a mark time ; it gives us a time to re-examine some of the schemes to see whether they are as financially viable as they looked er when perhaps times were better , and we would be hoping very much that er the economy will pick up and with it , land sales . |
| 27 | The atmosphere was alive with concern over Faye now , and the telephone would be ringing hot later on as people wanted to know how she was … |
| 28 | By this time the bell would be ringing insistently , because the Met Waaf at Group who was collecting the observations would have her finger on it , and sometimes she would type out a terse little message or two , such as , ‘ Wake up , Bourn ! ’ or ‘ There 's a war on , you know ! ’ |
| 29 | Soon they would be filling in the space with houses again . |
| 30 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |