Example sentences of "he would be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip , 20 , was told he would be speaking to Caroline Cove , 26 , on BBC1 's Good Morning show through a live link with Sarajevo , where she is serving with the Army . |
| 2 | From now on he would be looking for some sort of pattern . |
| 3 | Instead , at a press briefing , he made it clear that he would be looking to private benefactors to come to the rescue in extreme cases , and pointing to the successful purchases of ‘ Portrait of a lady with a squirrel and a starling ’ by Holbein for the National Gallery ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.1 ) and Canaletto 's ‘ The Old Horse Guards , London , from St James 's Park ’ by Andrew Lloyd-Webber ( see The Art Newspaper No.19 June 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | One of them , Dr Andrew Price of York University , said he would be looking at the impact of the spill on turtles , shrimps and dolphins . |
| 5 | The family say if her husband was still alive , he would be looking after her at home . |
| 6 | Pieper , who declined to identify his potential partners , indicated he would be dealing with Europe on a country-by-country basis . |
| 7 | He told me he would be phoning in copy to the Sun although , having no sex angle , they might not be interested . |
| 8 | He left her with the impression that he would be proceeding to the States . |
| 9 | ‘ Pinder told his wife that he would be staying with his sister Helen who lives in Retford , to avoid wasting a lot of time travelling . |
| 10 | It was agreed with the Prince that the interview would take place at Broadlands where he would be staying with the Brabournes in a few weeks ' time . |
| 11 | It is a picture indelibly imprinted , Ward 's voice painting it in quiet words , neither excited nor repelled by the horror of it , but simply repeating information he had obtained from one of the books he had borrowed from his Glasgow library as soon as he knew the route he would be taking to Punta Arenas and the Antarctic . |
| 12 | With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion . |
| 13 | And he would be thinking of her , and wanting her , and watching the raindrops as they spattered against the window . |
| 14 | ‘ Thanks , Henry , ’ he would say , in a tone that indicated this might well be the last drink he would be accepting from his friend , ‘ thanks ! ’ |
| 15 | In that capacity he would be acting as an insolvency practitioner and must be qualified so to act . |
| 16 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 17 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 18 | Coroner Nicholas Gardiner said he would be writing to Oxford 's Licensing Justices drawing their attention to the case . |
| 19 | He said he would be writing to the chief executive of the county council to ask him why the decision had been taken . |
| 20 | Alan Milburn , Labour 's Parliamentary candidate for Darlington , said he would be writing to the RHA calling on management to halt further moves towards purchasing consortiums . |
| 21 | The matter had been taken up with the Bank of Ireland and he would be recommending to the incoming Executive Committee that it should be referred to the Labour Court , on the basis that it is gross discrimination . |
| 22 | I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably said he thought two o'clock every afternoon I 'll remember what I can of Book of Isaiah you know . |
| 23 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 24 | He would be living in college at first — Emmanuel was his own college — but he would like , he said , to find a place of his own , preferably outside the town . |
| 25 | On one day he would articulate his awareness that his life-span would be short ; on other days he would speak vibrantly to the issue of looking forward to returning to work , to what type of work he would be doing in the future , and so forth and so on . |
| 26 | By lunchtime he would be lying in the darkness and the corrosive quicklime . |
| 27 | Garreton received a lot of the stick for the defeats against France and his Pumas days seem to be numbered , if not finished , especially after he told the French press that he would be playing in that country next season . |
| 28 | Since becoming the first Scot in 35 years to win the Amateur title at Carnoustie last year , Dundas has known that he would be playing in the US Masters at Augusta and Open Championship at Royal St George 's , and now he has received an invitation to the US Open , to be played at Baltusrol , New Jersey , on 17-20 June . |
| 29 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 30 | The talk would take in all the great political and aesthetic themes : Jean-Paul Sartre would join in , for he would be sitting at the next table : together , artists and intellectuals would conquer life 's essential absurdity ; and from such discussions tomorrow 's painting would be born . |