Example sentences of "would [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | or they 'd have been in a different position |
| 32 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 33 | From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) . |
| 34 | But well I 'd have been in my teens then . |
| 35 | lost that I 'd have been in a pickle . |
| 36 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 37 | I would have thought they 'd have been in touch about extending the guarantee through you . |
| 38 | he 'd have been before her would n't he ? |
| 39 | I mean what would have happened to us kids if if she 'd have been like him ? |
| 40 | She 'd have been like the Mercedes , another symbol of his wealth and authority . |
| 41 | The only mortgage I 'd get was for twenty odd thousand . |
| 42 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 43 | All I would want is for you to make the journey into the burning , and then come back and report . |
| 44 | The last thing the family would want is for there to be any public disturbance . ’ |
| 45 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 46 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 47 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 48 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
| 49 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 50 | Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income . |
| 51 | Similarly for example 3 , syntax would choose are over arc , and for example 2 , semantics would choose dog rather than clog . |
| 52 | We would envisage being in a position to despatch the sales documentation by the end of four to six weeks . |
| 53 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 54 | But erm what we would like is for any of you who are actually here at that time to attend that mass and to be involved in some way , to do some sort of erm service . |
| 55 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 56 | ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster . |
| 57 | His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 58 | ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’ |
| 59 | Well , with the two lines going yeah would have been about right then but see , John I do n't suppose he realised Ann was gon na fetch all the people out of here there and everywhere and start that up . |
| 60 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |