Example sentences of "they would [adv] be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would probably be down in their cellar . |
| 2 | Nina wanted to keep holding hands , and hurried the sleeves over her arms so they would not be out of contact for long . |
| 3 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 4 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 5 | It would n't have been so bad if the two girls in the flat upstairs were at home , but they would n't be back until the end of the week . |
| 6 | we were gon na go down there , but erm nan and granddad had been down there about a fortnight ago and they said they had n't got a lot out yet , they said they would n't be out for about another three weeks , so about |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll stay overnight , of course , ’ Agnese had decreed , when it became obvious that they would indeed be around for the party . |