Example sentences of "they would be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reality they would be , they 'd be moving onto another area . |
| 2 | ‘ I think if you asked most players in England if they 'd like to swap places with me they 'd be jumping over the top of each other to do it . |
| 3 | Er they would n't look for you when you were there , but if you 'd gone out somewhere , oh they 'd be looking for you . |
| 4 | And there they 'd be chatting across to one another or come to each others ' doors and h you know pass time of day having a little chat about one thing and another . |
| 5 | It was midway through a Friday afternoon , and Adele Venetz had taken the restaurant 's van to the cash-and-carry for all the last-minute supplies they 'd be needing for Saturday 's party catering job , leaving her sister and Alina to manage the business alone . |
| 6 | If they were working they 'd be going to discos , but because they ca n't work they stay at home , and because they 're girls they do the housework , though they feel they are doing somebody else 's housework . |
| 7 | They 'd be going in one continuous line through the streets . |
| 8 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 9 | The band were taking a break from each other , but they 'd be working on some new material soon with a view to releasing a new song as a single to coincide with Reading . |
| 10 | There was an old deckhouse off a ship and these old chaps used to meet there and I suppose they 'd be talking of old times — shipbuilding . |
| 11 | They 'd be talking for days on end . |
| 12 | fortnightly collection , so they would be saving in that |
| 13 | Ace had warned her they would be leaving by helicopter , but where they would be going she had no idea . |
| 14 | Following the ceremony , thanked the guests for coming and briefly explained what they would be seeing on their tour of the working factory , which is expected to boost the Company 's production to over 50,000 tonnes during 1990 . |
| 15 | A statement from the club confirmed they would be staying in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | They would be competing with each other in the canopy for exactly the same sunlight , but they would all have ‘ paid ’ much smaller growing costs to get into the canopy . |
| 17 | Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages . |
| 18 | Headhunters were also more likely to offer a dynamic rather than a static solution , Gozzard suggested : they would be looking for what was to happen to the company in the future , not just today , and the role of the successful candidate in effecting change . |
| 19 | And they would be looking for a bed for the night and it would be in the old hay shed that we would put them but there would n't be a problem . |
| 20 | Basically , it provided that they would be investing in her rather than letting her buy this or that security for them . |
| 21 | Little did they know that they would be stepping into Hunter and Rae Brown 's shoes less than a year later ! |
| 22 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 23 | If they had been , even now they would be thinking of the night to come . |
| 24 | ‘ At least they would be moving along the road . |
| 25 | They were rather taken aback when they realised they would be learning about the way the planning system operates ! |
| 26 | 51% of managers said they were playing it safe and upgrading their current central processing system , 29% said they are sticking with what they already have whilst some 16% said they would be downsizing to a mid-range system . |
| 27 | The solicitors informed the local authority that they would be applying for an order for costs against the authority . |
| 28 | No particular form of words is necessary to create a floating charge ; it suffices if the intention is shown ( a ) to impose a charge on assets both present and future , ( b ) the assets are of such a nature that they would be changing in the ordinary course of the company 's business , and ( c ) the company is free to continue to deal with the assets in the ordinary course of its business . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’ |
| 30 | They were a superstitious lot and tomorrow they would be fighting for their lives . |