Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 2 | You 'd be given free rein to run the show how you wanted it . |
| 3 | ( She 'd be getting jealous , with any luck . ) |
| 4 | She 'd be getting cold . |
| 5 | You 'd be stoned dead |
| 6 | I 'd be eating fried X-rays for breakfast . ’ |
| 7 | It 'd be spoilt rotten . |
| 8 | You 'd be hopping mad and sick with worry . ’ |
| 9 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 10 | If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too ! |
| 11 | ‘ If I had a dollar for every nurse in this hospital who 's been infatuated with Tom Russell over the past four years , I 'd be stinking rich too ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 13 | Soon , she 'd be sitting opposite la Principessa . |
| 14 | No direct rays could enter , and I knew that , as soon as I closed the hatch , I 'd be travelling blind . |
| 15 | If it were n't for my kids now I 'd be doing untold things . |
| 16 | Then he 'd pinch my lines which , of course , I could n't repeat , so I 'd be left speechless . ’ |
| 17 | If you do , you remain responsible for your child even while you 're out and if anything goes wrong , you 'd be held responsible for your babysitter 's welfare , too . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have thought you 'd be feeling grateful to him . ’ |
| 19 | Poor Steve , he 'd be going frantic by now . |
| 20 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 21 | Even without these dramas in the Gulf and the Soviet Union , America would be facing big economic risks in 1991 . |
| 22 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 23 | ‘ I would imagine the thrust of the brief would be to turn occasional Church users into regular users . |
| 24 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 25 | In the Liberal tradition , Asquith preferred to think of state welfare as a temporary measure which would be rendered unnecessary by the increasing capacity of the population to practice self-help . |
| 26 | Eventually , the existing form of monetary control would be rendered useless . |
| 27 | Guests were informed that Accounts would be rendered weekly and ‘ Visitors for less than a week are charged 1 shilling per day extra ’ and that the Swimming Pool opened ‘ Daily at hours which can be ascertained from the office . ’ |
| 28 | They would be rendered powerless — there was no way they could do anything with him . |
| 29 | Play-groups , mother and toddler groups and the teaching of parenting skills to families at risk would all feature in the family centres , but a subsidiary aim would be to explore different models of self help . |
| 30 | IN CASES OF EJEs ; Express your concern over the reported deaths of individuals in custody ( refer to victims by name , as above ) ; explain that the first step to prevent such killings would be to undertake thorough and impartial investigations ; urge that a commission of inquiry be established in accordance with the United Nations Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal , Arbitrary and Summary Executions ( 1989 ) , and that those responsible be brought to justice . |