Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't think he 'd be here five hours later , ’ said Mr Humble . |
| 2 | We thought we 'd be here all night . ’ |
| 3 | we 'd be here all day . |
| 4 | There were companies , er and there 'd be probably three companies to a battalion , something like this , depends on the arms , er and then er you 'd get three or four battalions to er to a brigade , you see . |
| 5 | No way , I think I 'd be even embarrassed telling you |
| 6 | ‘ A fortnight and you said you 'd be away ten days at the most . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 9 | ‘ There 'd be far more opportunities for me too , ’ he stated . |
| 10 | And er generally er with families being larger er in those days , erm there 'd be perhaps another couple of sons working or or something like to help . |
| 11 | Oh I should say there 'd be about thirty pupils there , mixed boys and girls . |
| 12 | Each of course you 'd be about seventeen years . |
| 13 | When I , when I first came out I bought one at er that 'd be about fifty quid somewhere round there , duck down |
| 14 | It 'd be about two year ago . |
| 15 | Well it 'd be about two pound every half a year . |
| 16 | ‘ In 1955 — he 'd be about six years old then . ’ |
| 17 | Oh I 'd oh I 'd be about three year old . |
| 18 | so then they 'd be about three pound or four pound in pocket and that 's how they , that 's how we used to help one another but once they get one rope ashore they could do it , the job see but of course there 's no boatmen today now , they call theirself boatmen but there ai n't one of the buggers going in a boat , I do n't suppose they could row a boat now . |
| 19 | Oh I know , well we have to do some because if we did n't we 'd be under thick feet |
| 20 | I do n't know if I 'd be very good company tonight after all . |
| 21 | Coach party 'd be very late back to Luton , and they do n't like that . ’ |
| 22 | yes indeed that 'd be very helpful Bert . |
| 23 | On the other hand you 'd be very odd people if you did n't take an interest in something in particular , some people take an interest in the w wooden frames , some take an interest in the textiles or some piece of furniture . |
| 24 | After a pause he added , ‘ We 'd be very pleased ti come ti tea . |
| 25 | By 10 o'clock there were signs of drunkenness and the Manager had a quiet word with the Junior to put away the bottles or they 'd be there all night . |
| 26 | ‘ Otherwise there 'd be too much needling going on . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There 'd be too much tension between them . |
| 28 | I need n't be frightened of the mole-woman : she 'd be too busy making beds and totting up last night 's proceeds to wonder whether I was a truant from a Youth Custody Centre or a prostitute on an overnight break . |
| 29 | And if they did they would n't be laughing ; they 'd be too busy tracking their way through the undergrowth . |
| 30 | You 'd never get it together to say ‘ this is unfair ’ , ‘ this should be changed ’ , because you 'd be too busy counting the exceptions . |