Example sentences of "[vb past] it would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We knew it would be in his favour if he drove well . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew it would be like this , ’ she said . |
| 10 | " I never knew it would be like that . " |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I thought it would be for the best to … to … ’ |
| 14 | It was smaller than I thought it would be for two-and-a-half grand 's worth , but then what do I know ? |
| 15 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 16 | ‘ I said all along that Lennox would win — but I thought it would be on points . |
| 17 | I suppose I thought it would be like a hospital ward , but it 's quite like an ordinary nursery , really , except it 's so dull . |
| 18 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire , but he has always been lucky . |
| 19 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire but he has always been lucky . ’ |
| 20 | He would n't have described himself as landed gentry — or if he did it would be with irony . |
| 21 | She knew she would open it , but when she did it would be as if he were with her all over again , and she would suffer so … |
| 22 | Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day . |
| 23 | Sunderland wanted £4,000 and their manager , Bob Kyle , said it would be worth it for the twenty goals Buchan was bound to score in his first season at Highbury . |
| 24 | The first girl said it would be like marrying her brother so she would not . |
| 25 | ‘ No one ever said it would be like this ! ’ |
| 26 | Well he said it would be by the markings . |
| 27 | Erm so if we gained it would be at the expense of Northallerton erm and when I , I made this point , well I did n't make this point I , I made the point about York being under-resourced because |