Example sentences of "would be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In desperation she threw the umbrella into the foyer , hoping there was somebody out of sight in the box office who 'd be alerted to her jeopardy . |
| 2 | I knew that if there was anyone else at all in the building , they 'd be alerted to it . |
| 3 | It meant I 'd be connected to Charlie for years and years , long after we left school . |
| 4 | There were a lot of mad parties — I 'd be invited to quite a few of them , and people were walking around a lot of the time saying : ‘ Hey man , I 'm an orange … . ’ |
| 5 | So I so there 'd there 'd be there 'd be written to and would it be special paper ? |
| 6 | Marilyn said she 'd be writing to Lilian . ’ |
| 7 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 8 | I 'd be bound to be found out in the end . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I told him I 'd be speaking to you soon . ’ |
| 10 | and Jehovah proceeded to go down to see what they see , to see the city and they tell that the sons of man have gods , after that Jehovah said look there are one people and there is one language for the north and this is they start to do , why now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unobtainable for them , come now let us go down and their confuse their language , he 'd be speaking to angels now would n't he |
| 11 | Sir er you hinted that er if there are to be further written representations you 'd be looking to directing a cutoff date , and you hinted at I think tomorrow as being one possibility sir , so that you could leave this enquiry on Wednesday with all the papers you need and receive nothing more by way of written representation , evidence or any other documentation whatsoever . |
| 12 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd likely walk free and she 'd be sent to gaol for being a whore . |
| 14 | When Margaret Hughes arrived at court in Leominster she knew there was a chance she 'd be sent to prison . |
| 15 | Recognizing much of his own diffidence in this display of it on Charlotte 's part , he added : ‘ I 'd be honoured to . ’ |
| 16 | I think if I were fourteen or fifteen years old looking towards leaving school , average ability , I 'd be thinking to myself ‘ Well , what 's the point of working at school ? |
| 17 | Working with with the with the cow man , but I very soon got tired , I 'd be begging to be allowed back into the stable because the horses were my first love . |
| 18 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 19 | If Tapie was a fish he 'd be stuffed to the gills this issue ! |
| 20 | With my accent I thought I 'd be smashed to pieces or fucked in half after five minutes in here . |
| 21 | He 'd be driven to Dracon which is a complex of well-guarded buildings off what they used to call Space Highway … ’ |
| 22 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 23 | All the way I 'd be talking to myself in my head , saying , ‘ Um , yes , that 's a so-and-so , ’ practising my identification skills . |
| 24 | According to Lucy : ‘ It 's a fing like , I 'd be talking to Carol , right , and she 's with Ann … ’ |
| 25 | so you the person you 'd be talking to would be erm trying to put you off to stop you getting something a a direct replacement |
| 26 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 27 | But if you 'd listened to me , you 'd be married to Charles now and doing your duty as a good wife should ! ’ |
| 28 | There 'd be so many other people around that she 'd be cushioned to some degree from the effect of his presence , she had reasoned . |
| 29 | ‘ He told me a fortnight before he came out that he 'd be coming to me . ’ |
| 30 | Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding . |