Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds have now dropped to 40-1 outsiders to retain the title and manager Howard Wilkinson admitted morosely : ‘ At the start of the season I never imagined we would be in a situation like this going into Christmas . |
| 2 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |
| 3 | But he reckoned we would be on course for a start in April for the er certificate er which would be twelve half day day release courses |
| 4 | The infant , which was incidentally precisely what we predicted he would be in physical makeup , sex , coloring , and so on , was born here seven days ago . |
| 5 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 6 | After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day . |
| 7 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 8 | Mr O'Connor 's management decided it would be in the best interest of all concerned for the event to be postponed giving the theatre management seven days ' notice , enabling ticket holders to be contacted . |
| 9 | I 'm tired this morning , but not as tired as I thought I would be considering two nights out . |
| 10 | I always thought I would be in a box when I finally left here . ’ |
| 11 | I always thought I would be in a box when I finally left here . ’ |
| 12 | I felt she would be at home in an arena with starving lions . |
| 13 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 14 | ‘ Your Grace , I thought you would be at Windsor ? ’ |
| 15 | Joshua thought she would be in her early forties . |
| 16 | I knew we would be without them for the return so there 's no point talking about it we have other players who can score . ’ |
| 17 | This meant they would be at least doubling their monthly instalment payments . |
| 18 | The paternalistic Tillers knew they would be at risk so William was taken on to carry out these arrangements . |
| 19 | I just avoided the boys in the town for a while , only going in with my father or at times when I knew they would be in school . |
| 20 | Huy hoped that when he died it would be in the desert or on the river , so that the vultures or the crocodiles would take him . |
| 21 | He felt he would be in ‘ a better position to settle on the appropriate form of punishment ’ if he knew the victim 's feelings . |
| 22 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 23 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 24 | They knew he would be at the Excelsior . ’ |
| 25 | She knew he would be in hospital a long time and wondered how they would manage if he ever came home . |
| 26 | We knew it would be in his favour if he drove well . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew it would be like this , ’ she said . |
| 28 | " I never knew it would be like that . " |
| 29 | ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . ) |
| 30 | The price very nearly put me off though , £37.00 for one jump , but I thought it would be worth it as the price included one year 's membership and insurance so the price of the next jump would drop to £25.00 . |