Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was aware of the lath and plaster clinging to the bottom of the joists ; put a foot through that and you 'd be right through the ceiling below ; chap could fall slap into the bath from here , probably ; or into the twins ' room , maybe ; perish the thought ; daddy coming crashing through the ceiling , give the little perishers nightmares for the rest of their lives . |
| 2 | He wanted back stalls because he 'd be right under the gallery and no-one would see him . |
| 3 | We 'd be desperately in the way . |
| 4 | ‘ Did n't your letter say you 'd be here at the weekend ? ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , I thought if I stayed at Julie 's we could have an early night and I 'd be here in the morning . |
| 6 | It 'd be just like the country if there was n't all the noise from the traffic . |
| 7 | You must have guessed I 'd be somewhere in the hotel . ’ |
| 8 | You 'd be away from the job and the telephone , and you 'd be resting . |
| 9 | ‘ You know how clumsy you are with anything mechanical — you 'd be safer with a colony of rodents . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd be too near the Stage Manager 's desk there , might pick up his cues on the transmitter . |
| 11 | So I would n't like to see any property developers take it , the club on because I think they 'd be purely after the ground , I , I 'd feel much better if the consortium with Ray at the head took it over because they are genuinely interested in Walsall and the Walsall people . |
| 12 | Otherwise , they 'd be all over the place under their own steam . |
| 13 | I 'd be all for the change because there 's logic in it . |
| 14 | If the gym was n't very full you were really conscious of the number of screws ; they 'd be all round the back , all round the perimeter , and there was apparently a spy hole over the basketball net which they watched through . |
| 15 | On the Eagle I 'd be home in a couple of hours . |
| 16 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 17 | It may seem that the movement just discernible towards " spirituality " would be wholly to the benefit of religion , yet it is not necessarily so . |
| 18 | The telephone number would be somewhere in the house and in the morning Alain would be at his office and not likely to answer the phone . |
| 19 | Prices vary enormously for group holidays but a typical price would be somewhere in the region of £25 per person per day . |
| 20 | So what we say is that if you took all of our products all our ads they would be somewhere in the region of six hundred pounds . |
| 21 | would be somewhere in the region of a hundred and fifteen pounds . |
| 22 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 23 | Once on board that plane they would be strictly at the mercy of the count . |
| 24 | Closer to home we have to decide whether , for example , to recognise that an increase in food prices imposed as a result of welfare standards demanded by the middle classes would be rather like the poll tax . |
| 25 | Colonel our form commander was not sure he would be here about a month ago and so he sent me a statement that I would like to read . |
| 26 | So when Bernard rang and said that he and Colette would be away for a fortnight — would I like a break ? — I moved in to babysit their cottage by the sea . |
| 27 | As well as giving her cause to be anxious about Rosemary — whose parents would make life most uncomfortable for her if the rumours circulating the village ever reached them — it was a blow to know that Sebastian would be away for the rest of the year . |
| 28 | He was just telling the driver of the light engine that he would be away in a minute , when from Bradley Fold station box came the 4-5-5 signal ( train or vehicles running away on the right line ) . |
| 29 | There would be a lot of damage and a few people would get hurt , but the lads would be away by the time the police could get round to the place . |
| 30 | Raybestos Manhattan described the NIOSH recommendations as ‘ so extreme as to be totally unrealistic and unpracticable ’ in its 1976 annual report , and suggested Raybestos Manhattan 's future strategic direction would be away from the use of asbestos in friction products : |