Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " But I would be taking advantage of your kindness and feelings for me . " |
| 2 | Teachers were told that I would be observing pupil communication but the exact focus was not specified . |
| 3 | Now a mature 10-year-old , Lois , from Aintree , says : ‘ I do n't think I would be doing comedy if it was n't for my dad . ’ |
| 4 | Until recently , company sponsorship of ITV or BBC programmes was strictly confined to events which would be taking place regardless of their being televised . |
| 5 | She too had been suspicious , for Caro had deliberately misled her , letting her believe she would be sharing Water Gypsy with another woman . |
| 6 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 7 | And with Paula loading the caravan she would be putting stuff in , I would say why are we taking that ? |
| 8 | Collections Curator Lisa Dennison has been playing with possibilities but told The Art Newspaper that she would be placing Brancusi with Robert Ryman and that the exhibition would include Kandinsky . |
| 9 | I had come , I said , to see a certain well-known actress , who would be arranging work for me . |
| 10 | You would be drawing sucker from E two in your anti-development policies in your local plan . |
| 11 | ‘ You would be playing rugby with people who are supportive of change and who are non-racial . |
| 12 | Now I know in some of the newspapers today it 's been suggested that you would be doing sort of long distance surgery as it were , but that 's not the case ? |
| 13 | At the same time you would be giving charity a boost as the Echo will send a cheque for £100 to the charity of the winner 's choice . |
| 14 | I said that we would be taking stock , and I meant precisely that — taking stock on the basis of an increased vote in Scotland , on the basis of more Members of Parliament for Scotland and on ways of seeking to increase the strength of the Union . |
| 15 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 16 | Erm we would be allocating land through our local plan for the year two thousand and six . |
| 17 | The League 's five Maghreb members were the first to announce that they would be sending representation at ambassadorial level only ( instead of foreign ministers ) . |
| 18 | Mr Anthony Scrivener , QC , for the defendants , said he would be seeking leave to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 19 | He would be taking Christmas communion to the sick . |
| 20 | Christie arrived back from warm-weather training on Thursday , but confirmed yesterday through his coach , Ron Roddan , that he would be flying north to attempt a sprint double , even though the 200 metres is scheduled for today and the 60 metres tomorrow . |
| 21 | It was Sunday the next day and he would be playing golf . |
| 22 | Barton told her that he would be sitting ringside along with a photographer . |
| 23 | He said if a doctor starved Tony he would be committing homicide . |
| 24 | To that end , he announced in March that he would be raising taxation next year , and again the year after that . |
| 25 | In the above example the gross amount of the gift was £1,000 , so the donor would have to certify that he would be paying tax of at least £250 . |
| 26 | Aplysia may be a special case because it is easy to study , but it would be straining credulity to believe that it organized its learning behaviour along fundamentally different principles from those of other invertebrates , or indeed vertebrates with reasonably sized nervous systems . |
| 27 | But it would be straining credulity too far to expect that everything will be absorbed . |
| 28 | He grew very hot and thought that he was probably looking runnier than ever , but felt it would be courting horse trouble to take off his jacket . |
| 29 | According to Benson it would be getting dark soon after ten , so Hess would have to show up soon . |
| 30 | The speech processing market continued its wander towards the commodity end of the industry last week when the Delrina Technology Inc subsidiary of Delrina Corp , Toronto said that it would be adding speech extensions to its WinFax personal computer facsimile software . |