Example sentences of "and [pron] [modal v] be [adv] surprised " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looks in very good shape and I would be very surprised if he did n't make Britain 's World Championships team . ’ |
| 2 | And I would be very surprised if that ‘ lovely woman ’ of yours does n't know a little more than she 's prepared to admit — even to you ! ’ |
| 3 | weeks ago for those and I 'd be very surprised if they do n't soon |
| 4 | He is potentially one of the best two-mile novices in the country , and I will be very surprised if he is beaten . |
| 5 | Just try using them instead of your regular chords wherever you feel like it , and you might be pleasantly surprised . |
| 6 | Do n't expect anything , and you may be pleasantly surprised — that 's my philosophy . |
| 7 | But now take a closer look and with a pencil tick the qualities that are already a part of you and you will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 8 | One day I 'll learn to swim real good , so I can go up to Scotland and show Marie and she 'd be real surprised . |
| 9 | He comes home late night , one Saturday night , having been working long hours , not having enough sleep , she nags him and Madam he loses his temper with her and Madam , I am sure that you and I in our relationships same sort of stress in a different situation where , where we 've been nagged by our partners and lost our temper and pushed them about , or whatever , and we 'd be very surprised I think to find ourselves in , in my client 's situation had that happened , because what , what happened here Madam was that erm the girlfriend suffered some minor injuries , nothing to worry about really . |
| 10 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 11 | Yeah , well an awful lot of this , this sort of waste disposal regulatory work and so on is , is very distantly removed from most consumers , and they would be rather surprised if they knew you were doing it . |
| 12 | And he will be pleasantly surprised to see that only three horses line up against his rising star . |