Example sentences of "would [verb] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd want to be with him , working alongside him . |
| 2 | She 'd want to be like him . |
| 3 | I 'd prefer to be on my own patch to handle this one . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ Pink said , ‘ I 'd prefer to be on a building site than be a government scientist in this day and age . ’ |
| 5 | Good morning , ladies and gentlemen , can I just give you er , Tony apologies , er , unfortunately he has to be in Paris today , I know he 'd prefer to be with you , but he has to be in Paris today , and since he 's good at delegation , he 's actually asked me to come along and and to talk to you . |
| 6 | It 'd need to be like C X. |
| 7 | that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that . |
| 8 | I 'd like to be on the lovely buses . |
| 9 | She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room . |
| 10 | ‘ If you do n't mind , I 'd like to be on my way pretty soon . |
| 11 | She looked him in the eye and admitted , ‘ If you have nothing better to do , I 'd like to be with you , Miguel . ’ |
| 12 | mind you I 'd like to be like that |
| 13 | Er if my choice , I 'd like to be in the docks , but things can not ha happen that way , we 've got a lot o , a lot of the yuppies moving in that area , and that seems to be taking over that area so no chance of a football stadium there . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd hate to be in his way , or to be his enemy . |
| 15 | She 'd have to be with that hair ! |
| 16 | You 'd have to be on the ground . |
| 17 | And if you were on night duty you 'd get two nights off , but when you came back you 'd , you 'd , you 'd have to be on duty that night so you 'd have to go to bed that day . |
| 18 | Some time in the early hours of Saturday morning Archie staggered to his feet and said that he 'd have to be on his way . |
| 19 | You 'd have to be on a race tract or a rally circuit to push these to the limit , but on normal roads in normal cars motoring can be more dangerous . |
| 20 | You 'd get off at six o'clock in the morning and you 'd have to be in court at ten o'clock . |
| 21 | You 'd have to be in your vest . |
| 22 | I 'd have to be in a grown-up panto — called something like Mother 's Goosed . |
| 23 | There 's no real I mean you 'd have to be in a real big way of a business and use a large proportion of your house for the gain on that proportion to exceed five thousand eight hundred . |
| 24 | I know you were proud to give Anne away , and I 'd love to be with you and all the family , but we only have two days ’ leave . |
| 25 | Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August . |
| 26 | I 'd love to be like my mother . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm a free agent and like any other driver I 'd love to be in the Williams . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I would prefer to be of help to you and Nader , ’ she explained , ‘ rather than wait around for news of Philippe that may never come . ’ |
| 29 | Unperturbed about the taxes of others , the individual would prefer to be at E 1 . |
| 30 | Workers would prefer to be at point C rather than point A in Figure 5.1 , while employers would be maximizing profit at point C as well as point A. Despite the scope for a Pareto-improvement in welfare if the real wage were reduced to w * ; , the means of achieving such an improvement are absent in a money using economy . |