Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I would want is for you to make the journey into the burning , and then come back and report . |
| 2 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 3 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 4 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 5 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 6 | ‘ Had I done so , trust me , I would have been at my home that particular Friday to honour that promise . ’ |
| 7 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 8 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 9 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 10 | otherwise I would have been on two fifty . |
| 11 | ‘ But I would have been through here sooner or later anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |
| 14 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 15 | I would have been in there , you know . |
| 16 | I wondered what I would have been like if Lili had been my mother , but it was impossible to imagine Lili in the depths of maternity . |
| 17 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 18 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 19 | She would have been at his mercy and she did n't suppose he had any such thing . |
| 20 | ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’ |
| 21 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 22 | That evening , though , their ragging had distressed her and but for Colonel Hope 's intervention , she would have been in tears . |
| 23 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 24 | She knew , with a feeling of detachment , that she attracted quite a few stares herself , primarily from men , and that if she had not had André at her side she would have been in very real danger of having to concoct a few efficient exit lines . |
| 25 | I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do . |
| 26 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |
| 27 | Janet adds : ‘ Before the idea of the ‘ drop-in ’ centre , we would have been forced to admit the mother and she would have been in hospital for a few days . |
| 28 | Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow . |
| 29 | Because if you had not been down in Minya chasing that gipsy woman you would have been at the theatre . |
| 30 | In the example invented , you would have been on much safer ground if you had written a precise account , as follows . |