Example sentences of "he would be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he would be hindered unless he knew the methods and presuppositions of the Church and its clergy . |
| 2 | If Mike fell behind , he would be lost in the forest . |
| 3 | If he drank , he would be lost for ever … |
| 4 | Without hesitation , she set off in pursuit , unable to think beyond the fact that he would be lost , not even considering that if she was dismissed he was no longer her responsibility . |
| 5 | If he saw her naked , he knew he would be lost . |
| 6 | He would be lost in the city on his own and besides he must not forget about his grandparents — they would die if he did not look after them . |
| 7 | hold would fall apart and he would be parted from William . |
| 8 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 9 | Namely , a sentence in the police officer 's statement of evidence to the effect that ‘ Should anyone come into contact with the jagged metal on the front nearside wing they would be injured ’ , or ‘ If a pedestrian collided with the piece of metal left after the front nearside wing mirror had broken off , he would be injured ’ . |
| 10 | A Corporal would tell a recruit not to spit on the floor because it was disgusting and because if he continued to do so he would be hit . |
| 11 | He would be re-elected for Haggerston in 1900 and in 1903 would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 12 | How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 13 | If he was born before midnight , he would be called Patrick . |
| 14 | As before , whenever his acquirements enabled him to pay , he would be called upon to do so . |
| 15 | If you took an ‘ a ’ away from his name he would be called ‘ Stan ’ . |
| 16 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 17 | He would be missed to a degree all out of proportion to his usefulness . |
| 18 | He would be pelted with fruit . |
| 19 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
| 20 | He hoped he would be asked what these might be . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 22 | But he confirmed he would be asked to clarify what his remarks were intended to mean . |
| 23 | If the relatives could not pick the patient up , he would be lodged in the casualty department of the local hospital . |
| 24 | He would be rid of him at last . |
| 25 | He was concerned he would be locked in an English jail , and wondered if he should seek Embassy asylum . |
| 26 | Since his experience of captaincy was limited , he had not believed he would be appointed ; but he had had his hopes , and had thought a lot about the team 's problems . |
| 27 | In August 1895 , arising out of argument about the fees payable to the law officers , Lord Salisbury , as Prime Minister , promised Sir Edward Clarke that he would be appointed Attorney-General if a vacancy occurred within two years . |
| 28 | Prince Sihanouk himself proposed a compromise on Sept. 21 , whereby he would be appointed Chair and the SOC would be entitled to a seventh delegate . |
| 29 | His father said if he married her he would be cut oot , cut off withoot a penny . ’ |
| 30 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |