Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 61 | He looked around , as if afraid that someone might be listening to their conversation . |
| 62 | ‘ Well , someone might be flying to Calgary tomorrow morning , ’ I suggested . |
| 63 | If my anger breaks the glass , I could be smashed to smithereens . |
| 64 | On the way we stopped in many towns and villages , so that I could be shown to people . |
| 65 | It 's a damn strain because I mean , I could be talkin' to 'er ( Lucy 's white friend ) ' that , at the end of the day she can say , ‘ You fuckin' black bastard ’ . |
| 66 | If I could be bothered to . |
| 67 | I think if I were fourteen or fifteen years old looking towards leaving school , average ability , I 'd be thinking to myself ‘ Well , what 's the point of working at school ? |
| 68 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 69 | Recognizing much of his own diffidence in this display of it on Charlotte 's part , he added : ‘ I 'd be honoured to . ’ |
| 70 | There were a lot of mad parties — I 'd be invited to quite a few of them , and people were walking around a lot of the time saying : ‘ Hey man , I 'm an orange … . ’ |
| 71 | It meant I 'd be connected to Charlie for years and years , long after we left school . |
| 72 | ‘ Yes , I told him I 'd be speaking to you soon . ’ |
| 73 | I 'd be bound to be found out in the end . |
| 74 | With my accent I thought I 'd be smashed to pieces or fucked in half after five minutes in here . |
| 75 | All the way I 'd be talking to myself in my head , saying , ‘ Um , yes , that 's a so-and-so , ’ practising my identification skills . |
| 76 | According to Lucy : ‘ It 's a fing like , I 'd be talking to Carol , right , and she 's with Ann … ’ |
| 77 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 78 | Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding . |
| 79 | The assistant governor [ AG ] who I saw four days after I got into prison told me I 'd be going to Cookham Wood or Bullwood Hall in two to three weeks . |
| 80 | I do n't think I 'd be going to court if I had anything to be concerned about . |
| 81 | Working with with the with the cow man , but I very soon got tired , I 'd be begging to be allowed back into the stable because the horses were my first love . |
| 82 | I 'd be owing to the stage Mike ! |
| 83 | ‘ And you immediately assumed that you had outstayed your welcome and I would be thinking to myself , ‘ Mon Dieu , now I have to face that idiotic English girl . ’ |
| 84 | There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives . |
| 85 | And we know there are various er responses to that question , and I would be looking to the districts to say whether or not they could cope with the various levels of provision that have been identified for Greater York , and it 's the view of whether they can cope within their own districts , I have n't said how you can cope , I said whether you can cope , you might I will I will leave you free to make the odd comment , but I want to focus on that part of the issue , and then the natural corollary to that is , will it be necessary , or is it considered necessary in the context of this alteration to provide specific guidance within H One policy for the distribution of that er development to er at sub , what I would call sub-district level , in other words do you want a specific entry for say Ryedale or Hambledon ? |
| 86 | I had set my sights on getting a good position in training so that I would be sent to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 87 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 88 | I would be lying to you if I said it was the same now . |
| 89 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 90 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |