Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] would be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault . |
| 2 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 3 | Marilyn Thompson was Charlie 's wife 's best friend ; Charlie was to be Jack 's best man and one day he thought he would be godfather to Jack 's first child . |
| 4 | If he did it would be Europe 's loss . |
| 5 | He said it would be politicise police forces and he said that this vote would be a momentous decision because it w th the Bill will do grievous damage to policing in this country and we must remove the repugnant decisions from the Bill , but I alw I did think actually that was fairly extravagant language . |
| 6 | He hoped it would be Gwen Evans who came , though his business was with her husband . |