Example sentences of "[pron] be all i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I did n't kill his missis either , if that 's what all this is about , which is all I can think . ’ |
| 2 | We spent a week 's honeymoon in Suffolk , which was all I could afford . |
| 3 | And when I was n't with her , like when I had to go to school and she had to stay behind in my bedroom until I came home , she was all I could think about . |
| 4 | ‘ In the corner , it 's all I could find , ’ she replied . |
| 5 | It 's all I can offer , but if you felt like pouring us a couple , then topping it up with water … |
| 6 | It 's all I can do , " |
| 7 | ‘ It 's all I can do . ’ |
| 8 | This is something I 've suggested before , something I keep on suggesting because it 's all I can think of . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all I can think about , and whether I could have said or done anything . ’ |
| 10 | Well , it 's all I 'd expect . ’ |
| 11 | I suppose it is all I could have expected . ’ |
| 12 | Dragging along behind , it is all I can manage to hang on . |
| 13 | It is all I can do not to reply , ‘ Fuck you , get your own dinner . ’ |
| 14 | For I am at such an inn because it is all I can afford — and you would not be here had you better means . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Lemurs are a delicacy in Madagascar and it was all I could do to stop my fellow passengers eating them , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 17 | It was all I could do to keep my feet . ’ |
| 18 | She was heavy and it was all I could do not to let her slide through my arms . |
| 19 | It was all I could do to stop myself from shaking her until her neat white teeth rattled . |
| 20 | it was all I could do to get home . |
| 21 | ‘ My heart was racing so uncontrollably that it was all I could do to say anything at all , ’ she told him . |
| 22 | ‘ It was all I could find — courtesy of Jim , actually , ’ Lindsey admitted wryly . |