Example sentences of "would be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | you know , they 'd be put on the other register . |
| 3 | From from a few weeks old she 'd be sitting on on there was an old er wreck of a boat there . |
| 4 | Melissa slipped indoors to wash her face and hands ; it was important to appear normal , as any hint of agitation would be pounced on by Iris and lead to a cross-examination . |
| 5 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 6 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 7 | Well I do n't think you can expect the County Council and the structure plan authority to have an idea of where the allocations are going because that would be taking on the role of the local plan preparation authority . |
| 8 | The last one standing would be cheered on until he too dropped . |
| 9 | By the time they had got the room cleared up and were ready to go out it would be getting on for twelve . |
| 10 | He would go to Buxton , probably , for the waters and her boys would be getting on well at Belvedere . |
| 11 | One thinks how marvellous it would be to go on living . |
| 12 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 13 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 14 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 15 | An agreement had hastily been arrived at , to the effect that Cornelius would be kept on at school for an indefinite period until matters could be expedited . |
| 16 | I looked at her with affection and Tremayne patted my shoulder and told them I would be staying on as arranged to write his book . |
| 17 | I carried Rachel , and Margaret held on to me , and I hoped Tim would be hanging on to Mig , but when we reached the small steamer Tim was missing . |
| 18 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It would lead inevitably to higher costs which would be transferred on to the customer as an increased cost of electricity , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The development strategy adopted in the Greater York study never envisaged that the settlement , or the district that got the new settlement would therefore get a corresponding reduction in the amount of land it had to provide to meet the needs of the Greater York area , the strategy we use to identify sites within the Greater York area that could be developed without compromising greenbelt objectives , and that the new settlement would be added on outside that area without a reduction in that that figure . |
| 21 | Mercury 's orbit is fairly eccentric , and therefore a tidal bulge would be acted on by the Sun a good deal more strongly near perihelion than elsewhere in the orbit . |
| 22 | Jaq presumed that periodically these would be switched on to prune the jungle back . |
| 23 | It 's a dark room , so at any time of the day that light would be switched on by anyone wanting to read . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 25 | Where Whitehall mandolins would be sat on especially those who were involved in over interpreting general directives from Brussels and this side of the house has been jostling for position I am told , in order to get on the standing committee which is about to start upstairs . |
| 26 | The commission hopes that peer-group pressure would persuade member states to comply with the council 's rulings on their budgetary plans , which would be taken on a majority vote . |
| 27 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 28 | The train would be allowed to cross the border if there was an absolute assurance that the children would be taken on to Britain . |
| 29 | At the Russian Supreme Soviet session on Feb. 13 it was announced that responsibility for farm reform would be taken on by Russian Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi , whose public criticism of Yeltsin 's economic reform had become increasingly sharp over previous weeks . |
| 30 | After three years , the WIPers would be taken on as normal university staff . |