Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [Wh det] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through the short plane journey she 'd been imagining what it would be like to meet Rune again socially . |
| 2 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 3 | From the end of William 's reign , when contemporaries talked of a struggle between Court and Country , they were describing what we would more readily recognise as a clash between Whigs and Tories . |
| 4 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 5 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 6 | The Liberal Democrats are promising what they would do , but people should not be fooled into voting for them . |
| 7 | He was wondering what it would be like to kiss her when Fidelma repeated her warning . |
| 8 | ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’ |