Example sentences of "[pers pn] would be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 2 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 3 | Then he 'd pinch my lines which , of course , I could n't repeat , so I 'd be left speechless . ’ |
| 4 | After travelling ‘ with knitting ’ for many years , I knew that I would be made welcome when I arrived . |
| 5 | Mummy , you must be mad if you think I would be seen dead in a yellow frock ! |
| 6 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 7 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 8 | Now , nightly , when Leon had finished playing and had closed his door again , I would be left sleepless , confused by the force of my neglected senses . |
| 9 | I remember I would be told infantile stories , altogether appropriate to my infantile station . |
| 10 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 11 | You 'd be stoned dead |
| 12 | You 'd be given free rein to run the show how you wanted it . |
| 13 | If you do , you remain responsible for your child even while you 're out and if anything goes wrong , you 'd be held responsible for your babysitter 's welfare , too . |
| 14 | Susanna Wesley spoke with her daughter in October and prayed that she would be given true repentance , ‘ without which I desire to see her face no more ’ . |
| 15 | One edged remark , and she would be struck dumb . |
| 16 | She went to the Labour Bureau and the clerk there told her that she would be passed fit for clerical work and sent her to the Ministry of Defence Office . |
| 17 | Similarly , in medieval Europe , it was ‘ common sense ’ that one could determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person through ‘ trial by ordeal ’ , e.g. accused people carried a red-hot iron bar for ten paces , and if their wounds were healed after x days they would be declared innocent — again , this method is noticeably absent in modern trials ! |
| 18 | If members would accept the additional resolution which stands in my name erm which reads this is what we 'd copied to all district councils and they would be made aware of the county council 's views on the matter . |
| 19 | In return for paying a small weekly contribution the contributor and his dependants acquired a presumption that they would be treated free without a means test though this was never a legal right . |
| 20 | I could only see him when they said I could , and they would be stood right next to me , watching me all the time . |
| 21 | They would be rendered powerless — there was no way they could do anything with him . |
| 22 | The present publishers , John Horbury & Associates , had quoted with an increase of only five per cent and they would be retained due to their reliability and flexibility . |
| 23 | Now , they would be thought obscene public perception has changed and understood that animals are sentient beings and that we demean our humanity if we are cruel to them or permit cruelty . |
| 24 | Not only did they get a promise from the secretary of the men 's union that they would be paid full wages by the union if they came out on strike ( unusual , if not unprecedented for non-members ) but the agreement subsequently signed with Neill 's management included some improvements in their piece rates . |
| 25 | It 'd be spoilt rotten . |
| 26 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Stacey was notified in February 1984 that he would be made redundant the following May . |
| 28 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 29 | Once his leg healed , Lucien quickly found that he would be kept busy . |
| 30 | By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP . |