Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'd be bound to be found out in the end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'd likely walk free and she 'd be sent to gaol for being a whore . |
| 10 | When Margaret Hughes arrived at court in Leominster she knew there was a chance she 'd be sent to prison . |
| 11 | Recognizing much of his own diffidence in this display of it on Charlotte 's part , he added : ‘ I 'd be honoured to . ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | If Tapie was a fish he 'd be stuffed to the gills this issue ! |
| 14 | With my accent I thought I 'd be smashed to pieces or fucked in half after five minutes in here . |
| 15 | He 'd be driven to Dracon which is a complex of well-guarded buildings off what they used to call Space Highway … ’ |
| 16 | But if you 'd listened to me , you 'd be married to Charles now and doing your duty as a good wife should ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But after a moment 's silence he said , as if casually , ‘ She 's a scamper , that one ; into every hole and corner , if I remember rightly , so she 's likely stayed out late and is frightened to go home — if old man Walton had a load on she 'd be introduced to the buckle end of his belt . |
| 19 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 20 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 21 | British detectives would be posted to Miami , Florida , where the FBI 's Caribbean fraud team would use their considerable resources to support them . |
| 22 | One thousand police would be posted to the suburbs that summer and 12 more " houses of justice " would be built as centres for dispute settlement and advisory services . |
| 23 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |
| 24 | It should be replaced , in Burlatsky 's view , by a different concept , ‘ public , self-managing socialism ’ , in which many functions presently performed by the state would be devolved to civil society and its institutions . |
| 25 | Now , the question for parishes would th they would n't be abolished , the , the question is , how much additional powers and responsibilities would be devolved to the parishes , and that 's the question . |
| 26 | Control of most branches of the economy , except for fuel , energy , metallurgy and communications , would be devolved to the republics . |
| 27 | He vowed it would be empowered to ‘ return Scottish water to the ownership and control of local authorities ’ . |
| 28 | The Whitsun visitors would follow the Easter ones ; in no time at all the hotels would be jammed to the doors . |
| 29 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 30 | It would , Burlatsky suggested , be based upon a wide variety of property forms , including state property which would be developed to the higher level of public ownership of the whole people . |