Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I 'd be beaten , ’ Turi said , ‘ but I began to realise I 'd chosen the right route by not cutting inside fences . |
| 2 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Meany 's camera equipment probably went ‘ crunch ’ on this one . |
| 3 | When the 15 men from no fewer than eight countries run out in front of a packed house for the 111th Bowring Varsity match at Twickenham today ( tues ) you 'd be forgiven for thinking you were watching some sort of world invitation XV taking on Cambridge . |
| 4 | You 'd be forgiven for doing a double take . |
| 5 | YOU 'D be forgiven for thinking that LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) — translated it means ‘ Lovers on the Pont Neuf ’ — would be all hearts and flowers . |
| 6 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 7 | He wrote : ‘ To judge by a lot of the stuff written about bands like U2 , you 'd be forgiven for thinking that rock starts are the new Messiahs . |
| 8 | Both the girls were under age for drinking , but knew they 'd be served without any trouble . |
| 9 | When we 'd be overtopped with mud and water in the trench there 'd allus be someone say something to make you laugh . |
| 10 | Take the kid to the big stores and they 'd be rigged out from top to bottom — all stamped PACA . |
| 11 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 12 | He had n't dared take part in yesterday 's Armistice Day service in the city in case he 'd be seen by any of his IRA comrades . |
| 13 | They 'd be seen as grasses or informers . |
| 14 | It has to be at night or we 'd be seen . |
| 15 | Yet who 'd have thought I 'd be given another chance like this ? she thought . |
| 16 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 17 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |
| 18 | It would be very carefully calculated and they 'd be given the right amount of the proteins that they could use to grow , because in the first years of life there 's very rapid growth and development is n't there ? |
| 19 | You 'd be given some input . |
| 20 | You 'd be given free rein to run the show how you wanted it . |
| 21 | So in that first year , at ten percent , you 'd be given a capital allowance of five hundred pounds , to be set against a profit of four hundred pounds . |
| 22 | And the theory was that if you served thirty years in the Ce Central African police , you 'd be given a section of land in what later became Rhodesia . |
| 23 | And the moment he mentioned his stepmother she 'd be given the opportunity to tell him how very unhappy Bertha had become . |
| 24 | Cos I was talking to Lilian , she was thinking that each year she 'd be given an update it should be a five year plan . |
| 25 | It could have it like those , like those , like those , or like those So that would be one deck of cards that you 'd be given and they 'd have the four types of symbols on them , separately of course . |
| 26 | Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources |
| 27 | ‘ Then we 'd be done for . |
| 28 | ‘ Were they being designed afresh today I 've no doubt they 'd be done quite differently . |
| 29 | She was persuaded to concede on that point , then proposed to share everything with the production team — until it was pointed out that if just one penny , or a single biscuit was diverted in that direction , and it became known , we 'd be lynched . |
| 30 | In desperation she threw the umbrella into the foyer , hoping there was somebody out of sight in the box office who 'd be alerted to her jeopardy . |