Example sentences of "[adv] you would [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , sir , since I presume you know my name , perhaps you would be obliging enough to tell me yours — and your business here . ’ |
| 2 | Thinking of his earlier remark , Cassie said bluntly : ‘ Well , I 've only just about got one foot in the middle class bracket , myself , so perhaps you 'd be slumming if you made love to me , which is so obviously what you have in mind . ’ |
| 3 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 4 | So you 'd be producing thousands of scones and lots of bread |
| 5 | So you 'd be asked to use it with something . |
| 6 | so you 'd be paying out for some more tyres if you do n't have that checked or anything |
| 7 | ‘ If you 'd stood next to him much longer you 'd be scratching by teatime . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Sure , if you went out you 'd be drinched entirely , ’ she sympathized . |
| 9 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 10 | Well , just think , when you 're working full-time you 'd be working nine till five . |
| 11 | Because it must be thirty two and thirty six , mainly you 'd be talking about would n't it ? |
| 12 | Er if you were a fairly decent criminal though you , you may well have a look through the windows to see if you can see any detectors on the wall , just to confirm it , because by now you 'd be thinking that a lot of these are dummies . |
| 13 | Erm so you 'd come in here and you would be asked Well you would be asked what would they be asked whether they |
| 14 | Well you would be registered here then would n't you . |
| 15 | Like a lot of weekends you 'd leave , you 'd leave the T A centre about eight and then from eight o'clock Friday night too about , well you 'd be working until about three o'clock Sunday afternoon , and you are lucky if you 'd got three or four hours sleep working you do n't notice , you get tired but you do n't feel that bad and it was only like I used to come home on a Sunday crash out about sleep about . |
| 16 | Yes , well you 'd be cramping his style would n't you ? |
| 17 | Unfortunately you 'd be expecting too much : the game was poor back in Issue 3 when it received a very sad 32% . |
| 18 | Sometimes you 'd be having a bit of a lark together and Con would draw himself up and say , ‘ This has gone far enough ’ , or , ‘ Have you considered the implications of this course of action ? ’ |
| 19 | At 8.55 a.m. , school checking-in time , the teacher at the gate would check your fingernails and your ears , and would take a pencil and pull it through your hair — if the pencil got stuck then you would be sent home to tidy up . |
| 20 | If you 're brought up with your dad having a very strict view about what people should like , in a more severe way than my dad , then you would be bound to get worried , because your parents never say ; ‘ You look good enough ’ . |
| 21 | then you would be limited to that . |
| 22 | If , for a moment , you could imagine next year 's Reading line-up then you would be looking at bands building momentum now as 1993 's potential headliners . |
| 23 | Or an electric fire then you would be asking for trouble because you 'd be trying to draw out |
| 24 | Then you 'd are saying how many fives in ten , the answer is two . |
| 25 | Then you 'd be plucking the sides to make it tidy and carrying it to make a round top sort of a roof on it . |
| 26 | What you use consultants for is when you have a one off task that it would be uneconomic to employ a member of staff to do because it would be finished in six months and then you 'd be left with a surplus member of staff . |
| 27 | At least you 'd be forced to take some notice of me . " |
| 28 | If you 'd been facing back there you 'd be swearing that was east . |
| 29 | Oi , imagine living in one of those houses there you 'd be woken up all night by ambulances sw blaring away ! |
| 30 | It will be a time for you to use all the imagination of which you are capable , to try to think how you would be feeling if you were in her shoes , and to handle her fragile emotions very gently . |