Example sentences of "would be [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Exactly where we 'd be without them . |
| 2 | Mr McQueen , who would be with them for some weeks , was accompanied by one of the Macleods of Raasay to pilot them , Malcolm Macleod , aged sixty-two . |
| 3 | For one moment she thought what fun it would be with them all . |
| 4 | True , Travis Hepwood , Rosemary 's secret boyfriend , would be with them too , but since Leith liked Travis very much , and felt sorry for the two of them , entertaining Travis as well was no problem . |
| 5 | Ten minutes , fifteen at the most , and the wind would be on them , tearing them from the saddle . |
| 6 | Any sign of weakness or fear and the cutpurses lurking there would be on them like a pack of dogs . |
| 7 | The alternative , if three of the commoners continued to hold out , would be for them all to claim compensation for lost rights from the Lands Tribunal . |
| 8 | The further west Allied aircraft could be stationed , the easier it would be for them to protect the sea lanes which were vulnerable to enemy air power based in Sicily and Crete . |
| 9 | This is the relevance of rules ; for the courts to embrace such an issue would be for them to breach the long-standing settlement with regard to the boundaries of parliamentary privilege ( see below , pp.113–19 ) and they would not do it . |
| 10 | But a better answer would be for them to be prohibited from driving cars above 1.3 litres — a common engine capacity — until they are 25 . |
| 11 | It would be for them to decide what to do with our report . |
| 12 | Naturally they accepted , knowing how invaluable his expertise would be to them . |
| 13 | ‘ The idea was n't greeted with much enthusiasm at first , ’ he says , ‘ But we continued plugging away at the distillers and mounted a back-selling campaign to the airline industry , pointing out what a boon light-weight ‘ Melinar ’ containers would be to them for their in-flight miniatures and duty-free supplies . |
| 14 | Features such as kerning , tracking , inter-letter and inter-word spacing control , ligatures and hung punctuation are all but unknown in page makeup yet no typographer would be without them . |
| 15 | I knew we would be without them for the return so there 's no point talking about it we have other players who can score . ’ |
| 16 | The rest of the wickets slipped away , 209 all out gave England a win by 19 runs and , as Pakistan had already beaten Australia , ensured that the final would be between them and England . |
| 17 | I knew the squadron was ordered out that night and he would be amongst them , and if ever death was in the face of a man , it was in his that afternoon . |
| 18 | The artillery-piece beside the building fired for what would be the last time ; the enemy would be upon them before the gunners could reload . |
| 19 | One day Angel would be among them . |
| 20 | If 80 per cent of pupils were to take GCSE then most of the top third of lower attaining pupils in succeeding cohorts would be among them . |
| 21 | The coolies inside the fetid dens immediately began to stretch their stiffened limbs and drag themselves off their sodden mats , knowing that within minutes the cai would be among them flailing heavy staves to rouse the laggards . |
| 22 | Mr Brown grew up in Darlington where his parents , Mr and Mrs Allan Brown , still live in Coatham Crescent , and in his youth he used to stand at a vantage point near the Whessoe Road/ Honeypot Lane junction to watch the rally cars speeding on their way , never dreaming that one day he would be among them . |
| 23 | Early on , they imagined that all foster parents would be like them — not so rich perhaps , but sharing the same basic standards . |