Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience and readership profiles of the various media will help to ermine which of them should be included on your list 1 which can be safely left out . |
| 2 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 3 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 4 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 5 | I may be bragging about myself though . |
| 6 | If I read Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice and notice the anti-semitism which surrounds the character of Shylock , I may be bothered by it , even condemn Shakespeare for his anti-semitism . |
| 7 | ‘ It looks like I may be coming with you to Abbotsfield . |
| 8 | Oh , somethin' should be done with her . |
| 9 | As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it ! |
| 10 | I must be getting on my way . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Even now you still believe your body to be so irresistible that I must be hungering for it ? ’ |
| 12 | But I must be guided by you , sir . ’ |
| 13 | I told myself , if there is any justice in the world I should be punished for it . |
| 14 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 15 | It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah 's Hay Madi barracks . |
| 16 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 17 | All the time I was reasoning with Maria Luisa I was thinking I should be reasoning with you , trying to win you back . |
| 18 | Someone must be lying on it . |
| 19 | ‘ Trouble is , Danny , they beat the watchman up an' 'e picked 'em out in an identification parade , so the copper told me. 'E said I might be 'earin' from 'em . |
| 20 | " I think I might be falling for you , you know , " he said as they were drinking up at eleven . |
| 21 | ‘ But I 'll be living with my own people . |
| 22 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |
| 24 | I 'll be looking for anything . |
| 25 | I 'll be looking after their babies — including Jack 's . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , yer can tell 'er I 'll be callin' on 'er tomorra . |
| 27 | " And I 'll be watching for you . " |
| 28 | The message in the words sounded ominous to Joe 's ears , and he straightened up and said , ‘ Tell Harry I 'll be thinking of him and I hope he 'll be home soon . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll be thinking of you , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I can tell Fräulein Silber that I 'll be staying with her next week then ? ’ |