Example sentences of "would be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more . |
| 2 | ‘ Although the fine is severe , we were all hoping he 'd be kicked out of the club by the League . |
| 3 | Carshes did n't like tractors , them big frightening things , you know , did n't like tractors , and erm I 'd be called out in the field then |
| 4 | I 'd be able to get on the horse but I 'd be ruled out of the Olympics because betablockers are banned . |
| 5 | Wow Gary you 'd be saving up till the end of the days |
| 6 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 7 | They 'd be taken up in a trainer plane by a pilot who had survived the Battle of Britain and , as Len put it , was zonked out with combat . |
| 8 | Then , as he opened the door , she 'd be picked up in a big hug . |
| 9 | And while he was on the film set or wherever he was you know , away from home for the week , he 'd be playing around with every bit of skirt he could find . |
| 10 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 11 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 12 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
| 13 | The additional contributions would be channelled back to the lending institutions by the Department of Social Security . |
| 14 | ‘ She asked me how I was and when I would be moving in to the cottage . ’ |
| 15 | Shoes would be kicked off beneath the desks and lie untidily askew . |
| 16 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 17 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 18 | joint local authority/private sector schemes — ownership and ultimate responsibility would lie within the public sector but the day-to-day running of the service would be contracted out to the private sector through competitive tendering . |
| 19 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 20 | In between arriving and leaving for Castelnaudary , most people would be weeded out by the tests or fall short of the required standards . |
| 21 | By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier . |
| 22 | Tha that would mean that all pensioners who are drawing the pension from pension funds would be penalised back to the date that you 're talking about . |
| 23 | The boring old unions would be pushed out by a new Rainbow Alliance of media-wise radicals , alert and campaigning on the big issues of racial and sexual discrimination , nuclear power , and protecting the environment . |
| 24 | Norma Thomson , secretary of New Deer Community Association , said : ‘ Perhaps whoever did the break-in knew there would n't be a policeman going back and forth and that he would be tied up at the meeting . ’ |
| 25 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 26 | It was agreed to tighten the Protocol so that CFC production and consumption would be phased out by the year 2000 , and that halon and ‘ other ozone depleting substances ’ should be phased out as soon as feasible . |
| 27 | Before the start of the conference , the UK Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , announced that industrial dumping would be phased out in the UK by 1992 , except in the case of ICI and Sterling Organics ( responsible for 78 per cent of all industrial waste dumped in the North Sea ) which would be licensed to dump until 1993 . |
| 28 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 29 | The remote would be blasted out of the sky in less than a fiftieth of a second . ’ |
| 30 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |