Example sentences of "'d be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 2 | Because , because Councillor do n't take my advice tonight , and I never thought I 'd be thankful to but take advantage of what says what you should do . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd be delighted to . ’ |
| 4 | Heseltine/Kinnock : At this juncture , well I 'd be delighted to , but what I , what do you mean … |
| 5 | I 'd be delighted to be led by him . |
| 6 | I 'd be delighted to second it Chairman . |
| 7 | My goodness , if I could only be God for a short time-even half a day ! — then I 'd be content to be St Peter for ever after ! " |
| 8 | ‘ So you thought I 'd be content to be your girlfriend , your mistress ? ’ she enquired , her face blank . |
| 9 | She 'd be good to be seen with and she had a sense of humour . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd be proud to be like your mother , ’ said Ellen , and she glanced towards Mary smiling on the mantelpiece and crossed herself . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 12 | ‘ It 'd be tantamount to theft . ’ |
| 13 | say that you 're not allowed to , to run those because they 'd be contrary to the directive , but er we 'd have to wait and see |
| 14 | " I 'd be grateful to you . " |
| 15 | After that 's the spring term we 're into now , after Christmas erm health now there was there are packages and Catherine gave them to me on personal hygiene , things like that and I think Paul erm I know he would be keen he said , he 'd be keen to maybe put a package together with the help of all the form teachers plus myself and maybe do a bit into health , cos I mean you know it 's it 's |
| 16 | She 'd be halfway to Atherton by now . |
| 17 | The other option would be expanding the villages themselves , and we find that that would be equally harmful , so we 'd be opposed to any significant additional development in our district over and above that that 's that 's been assumed in that table . |
| 18 | It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice . |
| 19 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 20 | He 'd be nice to them , she knew . |
| 21 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd be glad to . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd be glad to . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ One of the selling points when I joined was that I 'd be privy to scripts that I was never exposed to because I never had an agent . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I just thought Britain was getting like a treadmill , and that if I was on the spot in the States I 'd be able to chivvy them around a bit more . |
| 26 | I 'm not sure that I can — well — that I 'd be able to — " |
| 27 | But , as in the case say of a temporary administrator coming in he 'd be able to or she would be able to take up this file and use it . |
| 28 | I think if erm , perhaps if television did something more about it you 'd be able to erm , home in on the people who are excluded , erm , people who are outside school , school situations , people |
| 29 | I never thought I 'd be able to … ’ |
| 30 | To me I thought we were doing , individual projects which we 'd be able to be update in a loose-leaf format |