Example sentences of "would be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a pity that Stephen has met this girl who seems to want his every free minute or he 'd be company for you . ’ |
| 2 | There 'd be money in it . |
| 3 | I 'd be drinkin' a pint of mild an ’ bitter in the ‘ Elephant and Castle . |
| 4 | That 'd be council would n't it ? |
| 5 | We 'd be country weekenders . ’ |
| 6 | It 'd be museum quality . |
| 7 | What it came down to was that Erlich had one last evening as an independent , and that from first light , from waffles and coffee time , he 'd be part of their team and doing their bidding . |
| 8 | Pam smiled contentedly at him and settled back in her seat , reassured by Curtis 's confidence , and the fact that he 'd be part of the firm now . |
| 9 | So there 'd be delay in probate unless the children have got the money , so they have to borrow against the property or they have to raise money to pay the bill . |
| 10 | Pass any candy store in the city and there 'd be marzipan skulls and sugar fish and little white chocolate bones for 5 cents each . |
| 11 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 12 | Er , I do n't wan na put the onus on Paul to do that , I I 've asked and said I he said he 'd be queen , you know be ke , that was before the |
| 13 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 14 | It was Nimrod , it was Nimrod with Univers , it was , except occasionally there 'd be Grot nine , not because you felt they wanted to use Grot nine , but because they 'd said well what 's this one that has n't got serifs . |
| 15 | He silently toasted Dowd as he talked , knowing as he sipped it that there 'd be bloodshed before Christmas Day dawned . |
| 16 | In the spring when the f the daffodils and and the snowdrops started coming , and then there 'd be bird 's nests and all the different flowers , the farmers would start sowing , cultivating , mares would have foals , they had the harvest . |
| 17 | ‘ It 'd be work , I suppose . |
| 18 | I told you it 'd be chicken chasseur ! |
| 19 | If one of them hung up they 'd be tom apart again , three thousand miles . |
| 20 | I 'd be more'n happy to move out of this tied cottage and have the comfort of our own place , and I reckon with what Harry 's offered , we 'll soon have enough to buy summat small in Calking village , and if'n you doant want to come with me , Will Pritchett , then you can stay on here by yourself . |
| 21 | ‘ If word of this had got back to Connelly there 'd be gang war , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 22 | Of course you 'd be panic stricken , your heart would be beating wildly , you would be sweating , shaking , feeling faint , and without a further thought you 'd be off like a shot . |
| 23 | Later there 'd be evensong . |
| 24 | There 'd be chaos . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ An inch either way and you 'd be history , so I hear . |
| 26 | She 'd be matron of honour , of course ! |
| 27 | I said it 'd be divorce , grounds for divorce that , I said I would n't have that ! |
| 28 | according towards the under revelation he talks about how these , these dumb idols and these pieces of gold have got nothing in them and that 'd be way in which the , the ones would be caught out , because of these gold or whatever have got nothing in them you see . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |
| 30 | There 'd be mutiny , I should n't wonder . ’ |