Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I would be good and thanked him , and then quite unexpectedly he bent down and kissed my cheek and turned and abruptly left . |
| 2 | It would combine a broad measure of central planning with a great deal of autonomy for individual enterprises , which would be self-financing and interconnected through a market . |
| 3 | At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep . |
| 4 | A lepidopterist might be able to quote a going price for a preserved chalk-hill blue in good condition , wild rabbits have a price when shot and skinned , but the market price of Twyford Down itself would be low if sold with legal constraints which kept it as an open , public space and high if sold with planning permission for houses or industry ( or even a road ) . |
| 5 | The Muslim one would be shrunken and isolated . |
| 6 | Very often , even though the planes came back safely , there would be dead and injured on board , and sometimes a damaged aircraft would have been unable to release its bombs either over the target or in the North Sea on the way home and would have to land back at base with the bombs still on board . |
| 7 | But he would be shocked and saddened by how utterly selfish most of us so-called Christians are at Christmas when there is so much hunger and grief in the world . |
| 8 | This did they thinking that he would be dismayed and turn back : but the Moor did not cease to advance , notwithstanding this letter . |
| 9 | He would be grateful and loving to her throughout his life . |
| 10 | He would be calm and unafraid and , because he had remembered to breathe deeply before starting , he would ask the question in an easy manner without stammering at all . |
| 11 | What need had he , John-William Dallam , for a grandson , he thought grimly , when he would be dead and gone , by the look of things , long before he could teach the little chap how to run the mill ? |
| 12 | Whilst making some use of material offered in other courses , it would be free-standing and designed to produce well-qualified and committed ‘ ministers of music ’ . |
| 13 | Thieves would be unlikely to remove the communications chips because it would be time-consuming and mean disassembling much of the car . |
| 14 | Gentle took off his heavy coat , and laid it on the chair by the door , knowing when he returned it would be warm and covered with cat hairs . |
| 15 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 16 | Given that the EC is committed to economic convergence it would be counterproductive if resulting from the operation of the budget , economic divergence was reinforced rather than reduced . |
| 17 | But if the Wolf-Man is one of Freud 's successes , it would be interesting if harrowing to read about one of his failures . |
| 18 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |