Example sentences of "[pron] would be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie Sheen , who will play a dim-witted muscleman in the film , Hot Shots 2 , said : ‘ I 'd be flattered if a spoof was made of one of my movies . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd be prepared for you to go fortnightly . |
| 3 | I 'd be able to get on the horse but I 'd be ruled out of the Olympics because betablockers are banned . |
| 4 | I 'd be made up with you would you ? |
| 5 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 6 | Yet who 'd have thought I 'd be given another chance like this ? she thought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I 'd be stopped and deported . |
| 10 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 11 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 12 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 13 | ‘ I doubt I 'd be involved , ’ Maxim said slowly , thinking fast . |
| 14 | If this guitar were mine , I 'd be tempted to experiment , probably starting with Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro IIs , and then maybe I 'd end up with a guitar that was a perfect cross between the JD and the Signature . |
| 15 | I 'd be tempted to spend a little more and buy the Delrina package or UltraFAX . |
| 16 | ‘ For the investor with a £10,000 lump sum looking for capital growth , I 'd be tempted to split it into more than one investment . |
| 17 | If I could be absolutely sure that A and B were n't somehow mixed up in it all , I 'd be tempted to give it a go . |
| 18 | So basically just I 'd be tempted |
| 19 | but I 'd be tempted to stick with what you know you can do when you 're actually in front of the customer . |
| 20 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 21 | ‘ Capron said if I met you again I 'd be sacked . ’ |
| 22 | I mean I 'd be sacked otherwise . |
| 23 | It was nice to know I 'd be missed while I did a Roland . |
| 24 | On the other hand , I 'd be vibrated off the couch and all over the cabin . |
| 25 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I 'd be beaten , ’ Turi said , ‘ but I began to realise I 'd chosen the right route by not cutting inside fences . |
| 27 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 28 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 29 | Recognizing much of his own diffidence in this display of it on Charlotte 's part , he added : ‘ I 'd be honoured to . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd be honoured . |