Example sentences of "[pers pn] would be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |
| 2 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 3 | After travelling ‘ with knitting ’ for many years , I knew that I would be made welcome when I arrived . |
| 4 | Mummy , you must be mad if you think I would be seen dead in a yellow frock ! |
| 5 | If I was Peter Reid , I would be screaming blue murder to get this player . ’ |
| 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 | She would be voting Conservative and said Mr Major was a ‘ fair down to earth , very nice man ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity . |
| 14 | By midnight she would be experiencing severe abdominal discomfort . |
| 15 | One edged remark , and she would be struck dumb . |
| 16 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had fantasised the meeting : she would be lying naked and on some screen in front of her she would see , pulsing and radiant , her own dark lover and his home place . |
| 19 | IF YOU were an American government official named John McElroy , you would be feeling confused , not to say schizoid . |
| 20 | All I was going to say was that clearly I agree with one thing , but one would assume that as the paper is a really a general outline that we would be seeing specific targets as the agenda 's worked through over the next two three years . |
| 21 | We would be giving future generations an inheritance of which we could be proud , and which we would surely be proud to pass on . |
| 22 | So I have to say to you that whilst I 'm putting these forward , it 's absolutely clear that we would be having adverse comments and criticism er , from the S S I , and that you would be moving into areas that I ca n't recommend to you , but I , I put them forward as obviously illustrations . |
| 23 | And yes it erm I mean and therefore we would be reviewing current practices which is that erm you know the film is in the building , the cinema is open , the staff are there and we therefore show a film at four o'clock because there 's no extra charge for us doing so and we hope thereby to attract however many er patrons to see it . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | There were then , as there are today , young people from other groups who , irrespective of academic ability or social class , felt that through teaching they would be serving future generations . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I could only see him when they said I could , and they would be stood right next to me , watching me all the time . |
| 29 | They would be rendered powerless — there was no way they could do anything with him . |
| 30 | Then I remembered they would be getting ready for the Roman banquet later on in the evening . |