Example sentences of "[adv] he would be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a motorist was not making mental calculations all day long he would be forever banging into objects , people and other vehicles . |
| 2 | He rose but found his chains would not let him even reach it , so he slumped on the ledge and wondered how long he would be detained . |
| 3 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 4 | Asked how long he would be away he said softly , " I do n't know . " |
| 5 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 6 | Had he not been followed as a Surrey opener by Jack Hobbs , then perhaps he would be better known to posterity . |
| 7 | And while he was there , perhaps he would be able to solve the mystery of his real father . |
| 8 | Perhaps he would be speaking the truth and this small scene was repeated the length of the Nile . |
| 9 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 10 | Perhaps he would be lenient . |
| 11 | Perhaps he would be remembered for that . |
| 12 | While remaining head of state , he resigned forthwith as head of the MPR , declaring that henceforth he would be above party politics and not subject to political or legislative control , but would act as " arbiter and final judge " on important matters . |
| 13 | Like an Elizabethan tickling the back of his throat with a peacock feather to induce vomiting so he would be able to face the next enormous course , he brought up another cloud of ghosts . |
| 14 | So he would be nice to gays ; he would be in favour of , and even extend , abortion rights ; he would be anti-militaristic ; he would hug trees . |
| 15 | A Corporal would tell a recruit not to spit on the floor because it was disgusting and because if he continued to do so he would be hit . |
| 16 | So he would be under the STV , and in many constituencies his re.adoption would be practically as it is now a guarantee of his return to Westminster . |
| 17 | So he would be practically a dead man , once arrested . |
| 18 | So he would be vague , and talk of the south , and say he had been a vagrant for many years . |
| 19 | There was a particular café which the others frequented , but he knew if he went in he would be greeted dutifully , the buzz of talk would die down and one by one his schoolmates would leave . |
| 20 | They were silent on the way back , walking to cool the horses ; if his father saw the state they were in he would be angry . |
| 21 | In the resultant Postlethwait audio-tutorial laboratory , open from around 7.00 a.m. to 11.30 pm. , the student could come at a time of his own choosing ; at the entrance he would receive a descriptive hand-out explaining what books , notes , equipment would be necessary to bring along ; once inside he would be given a botanical specimen and would enter a pleasant area equipped with a multiplicity of booths or carrels . |
| 22 | It is true that he would have an answer to those claims because she was in desertion , but nevertheless he would be put to all the trouble , worry and expense of defending himself against them . |
| 23 | Soon he would be going out to start a new life . |
| 24 | The garden was very still , the bird-table empty , the room where the dying man lay as quiet and tranquil as the grave to which so soon he would be departing . |
| 25 | I said that soon he would be in the Air Force and no longer a financial burden on Elfed , and , even more than that , when the war was over he would be a wage-earner at something or other , and would be able to help Elfed and Cis ; what was more , Elfed would be already well aware that the liability he resented would become an asset he welcomed . |
| 26 | Soon he would be out of the way and he , Michael , could get on with his life . |
| 27 | The place was peopled with ghosts and soon he would be one of them . |
| 28 | If so , he would try to hide in his panic , never thinking how easily he would be discovered . |
| 29 | I wrote work instead of word ; the analyst would deduce from this , that I am lazy , and admittedly he would be right — I have dreamt of many things both by day and by night . |
| 30 | Tonight he would be with her . |