Example sentences of "would [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a pity that Stephen has met this girl who seems to want his every free minute or he 'd be company for you . ’ |
| 2 | There 'd be money in it . |
| 3 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 4 | And then there 'd be clothes for Anne . |
| 5 | What it came down to was that Erlich had one last evening as an independent , and that from first light , from waffles and coffee time , he 'd be part of their team and doing their bidding . |
| 6 | Pam smiled contentedly at him and settled back in her seat , reassured by Curtis 's confidence , and the fact that he 'd be part of the firm now . |
| 7 | There 'd be breezes by the river — I could sit and think , read my dreams . |
| 8 | So there 'd be delay in probate unless the children have got the money , so they have to borrow against the property or they have to raise money to pay the bill . |
| 9 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 10 | He silently toasted Dowd as he talked , knowing as he sipped it that there 'd be bloodshed before Christmas Day dawned . |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't think we 'd arrive in this Florida place and there 'd be signs up saying ‘ This way to space ’ , did you ? ’ said Angalo sarcastically . |
| 12 | Were you and I walking on clouds , we 'd be upsides with them . ’ |
| 13 | The second point is that the staff and the community , with the support of the Labour group and now the Democrats , have finally got a compromise solution which may not give them everything but again gives them what is achievable within the political complexion of this council and they must now accept that there is an onus upon them to make it work and thirdly we have got to make sure that the staffing arrangements that are referred to in here and I quote there there 'd be posts for each centre who will be expected to add each with staff teams to coordinate the delivery of services by the two centres . |
| 14 | Erm it 'd be groups of three again would n't it ? |
| 15 | When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back . |
| 16 | I 'll be running the other way you 'd think there 'd be loads of people going to pubs and stuff would n't you ? |
| 17 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 18 | A. T. I used to go round and there 'd be crowds of people standing at the corners by the pub , leaning against it . |
| 19 | If Sue were a cake , she 'd be layers of feather-light pastry , with jam , and piped curls and flourishes of cream and a sprinkling of chocolate on top . |
| 20 | And suddenly we 'd all be in Amsterdam or Paris or something like somebody 's idea of America for the evening , or else it would still be our own dear city , but from very definitely another era , all striped Regency wallpaper and framed Angus McBean photographs of Vivien Leigh ; or another time there 'd be nothing but opera on the sound system for a whole week , there 'd be complaints of course but Madame would say , I 'm just trying to give you boys an education , and Gary at least would be very happy . |
| 21 | She 'd be matron of honour , of course ! |
| 22 | according towards the under revelation he talks about how these , these dumb idols and these pieces of gold have got nothing in them and that 'd be way in which the , the ones would be caught out , because of these gold or whatever have got nothing in them you see . |
| 23 | And Lachlan , She 'd be mother to the heir ! |
| 24 | Er it 'd be sort of half of that . |
| 25 | Well he 's sold her a set of patio doors and told them they 'd be sort of six to eight weeks delivery . |
| 26 | Even if it was the day we 'd be sort of coming back |
| 27 | ‘ When I was at school I had no idea that one day I 'd be captain of Yorkshire . |
| 28 | She merely suggested there 'd be time for a game of spillikins before supper . |
| 29 | Finding that broking in political power was more fun than selling milk , Horsley self-importantly told Kinnock he 'd better stick to his socialist principles after being elected Prime Minister , or there 'd be trouble from NoS . |
| 30 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |