Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By which time I would be off the ‘ purpose built ’ , heading for the spaces … |
| 2 | Erm so I think I would be between the golf and and erm the medical side . |
| 3 | I had tried to be first in order to get it over with quickly but now it was clear that I would be under the gaze of most if not all of the class . |
| 4 | If you drew lines along the class map of England , I would be at the point where they all meet . ’ |
| 5 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 6 | ‘ If I was n't defending , I would be on the next plane home , ’ he said . |
| 7 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 8 | ‘ One day , he would tell me , I would be in the record books and so I should remain ageless . |
| 9 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 10 | Although Ruth now knew that she would be on the moor throughout the coming winter , and perhaps if she was lucky see the first , early signs of spring , she knew she was now taking her farewell of its chief beauty . |
| 11 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course I 'll take you , ’ Fabia replied without hesitation , and was about to add that she would be on the same flight with her when she was halted by a change in Cara 's expression . |
| 13 | He remembered how pleased she would be at the mere thought of a visit . |
| 14 | She would be at the station just in time to catch the train . |
| 15 | He had not caught a glimpse of Mary but she would be at the Sports . |
| 16 | He knew by then that he would kill her , because when his telephone rang Edouard said she would be at the museum . |
| 17 | Ruby had said she would be at the office again next morning by which time she expected Rain to have found something more profitable for her than keys . |
| 18 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 19 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 20 | The journey and the sport would usefully consume at least three weeks , during all of which she would be beyond the regular or predictable reach of the mails . |
| 21 | But , worst of all , she would not be able to take her unfortunate friend to be changed back to his normal self , and this was the only night of the whole year when she would be in the presence of a magician . |
| 22 | ‘ She would be in the room and he would dismiss her with a flick of the hand as though she were a servant . ’ |
| 23 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 24 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
| 25 | And in a jiffy you would be in the garden , and in another jiffy you would be through the front gate , and in yet another jiffy you would be exploring the marvellous Forest of Sin all by yourself . |
| 26 | No , she said , I 've been there yesterday , but er I lost a brooch , and I wish you would be on the look out for it . |
| 27 | You would be at the mercy of the hall 's acoustics and ideally you would need to practise a bit beforehand . |
| 28 | And in a jiffy you would be in the garden , and in another jiffy you would be through the front gate , and in yet another jiffy you would be exploring the marvellous Forest of Sin all by yourself . |
| 29 | You would be in the dark though were you if you shut the power down . |
| 30 | That way you would be in the UEFA Cup where there is no preliminary round and at least have a chance of getting a lucrative pay-day against a big club . ’ |