Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 2 | He once said he thought inheritance should be banned and I asked him if that meant I should leave all our money to his brother ! ’ said his father . |
| 3 | Hunter ended his description with a comment on Maria and a hint as to his charges to Martin Van Butchell : ‘ This body … yet promises exceedingly well , nor do I see any great improvement to be made ; a number of experiments must be made before I embalm any other body , such as finding the exact proportion of moisture Paris Plaister will take up etc. but at present I know of no other Process at all useful and considering the trouble you must have during all these Processes now laid down , you ought not to undertake it under 100 Guineas . ’ |
| 4 | There is one further feature of the ethnography which must be mentioned before I discuss the general pattern . |
| 5 | ‘ Come , ’ she added , ‘ you must be exhausted and I prattle on . |
| 6 | I thought you might be gone when I woke up . ’ |
| 7 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 8 | What I had n't expected was the reaction we got here today which is that erm whilst there are smiling dis , he 's smiling now , there are smiling districts who might be pleased to be named as areas in which a major exception might be accommodated and I had n't expected the others would like a bit of it if there was one going too . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll be ruined if I have to pay ! ’ |
| 10 | For one thing , you 're not the only one who 'll be affected if I give that story about the poison pen letter to the press . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll be released when I decide . ’ |
| 12 | " By combination " , Wilson affirmed , " all reforms and improvements within reason could be secured and I preached this doctrine on every possible occasion " . |
| 13 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 14 | " Father — is it possible — is it possible that Jennifer and me could be wed before I go with you ? " |
| 15 | Said that in future he 'd be obliged if I kept careful note of when Mr Meredith took out a horse . |
| 16 | It was nice to know I 'd be missed while I did a Roland . |
| 17 | I 'd be anchored where I reckoned she 'd get a little shelter from the bay in which she lay , but with a gentle south-westerly and no sign of any break in the weather , I was n't worried about her , and took the easiest line ashore . |
| 18 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 19 | I do n't know what happens about any other consultants who may be engaged but I suspect there will be no waiver of subrogation against those firms . |
| 20 | There are all sorts of ways in which this correct/incorrect distinction may be expressed but I suspect that one of these is always geometrical . |
| 21 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 22 | I may be crippled but I have the use of my eyes and my intelligence . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ With the Government slowly clamping down on all media coverage , unless I moved fast any chance of filming within South Africa would be gone and I did want the accuracy and flavour of the country itself to come through in the film . ’ |
| 24 | Doubtless Hirondelle had already been blown up , just as my own boat would be butchered if I insisted on challenging this man . |
| 25 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 26 | My ship might just be able to outrun theirs , but it could n't outrun the fusitron blasts that would be fired if I tried it . |
| 27 | Only , to say that I I I would be opposed because I believe you should delegate to committees to run their affairs and their resources in the way they want to . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , ’ said the civil servant , ‘ the question I shall be asked when I put this name to the PM is ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ From now on , the infant will be reared as I explained , and not for at least twenty years will we be able to report in much detail on the results of our investigations , although preliminary papers will be published in the professional press from time to time . |
| 30 | ‘ No decision about the meeting will be made until I have had talks with those responsible for organising the group 's itinerary , but we are not at all happy with the decision to meet Sinn Fein . ’ |