Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On one occasion she agreed to pose for photographs on the condition that she would then be left alone .
2 Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it .
3 In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory .
4 The Sun , on the eve of the Gulf War , had quoted Jason as saying that he would rather be buried alive that fight for his country .
5 It would also be made impossible for posts in the public service to be used as ‘ springboards ’ to highly profitable posts in banks and joint-stock companies .
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