Example sentences of "be [det] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are some people , ’ Lydia had said , ‘ who , as it were , belong in my house , and there are some that I can tolerate . |
| 2 | Help me , or it will be more than I can do . " |
| 3 | The agonies of reading one 's most intimate feelings and thoughts aloud to a roomful of strangers , and then being expected to talk about them and explain them in an acceptably relaxed and humorous manner were more than I could bear . |
| 4 | Is that because I can cook , or because I possess a mother , like other men ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Three hundred roubles , it is all that I can spare . ’ |
| 6 | It 's all that I can do . " |
| 7 | Hearing you apologise for the things I love most about you is more than I can stand ! ’ |
| 8 | But one more day is more than I can bear — |
| 9 | We all ended up happy , anyway , which is more than I can say for most marriages . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for the rest of this wretched world . ’ |
| 11 | which is more than I can say for the inflatable . |
| 12 | That is more than I can say about the Liberal Democrats , who seem to be headed for their own Westminster bunker en masse , or for Robin Cook , Clare Short , John Prescott or Chris Smith — all of whose views I would in normal times respect and follow with interest . |
| 13 | ‘ Which is more than I can say about you ! ’ |
| 14 | I said , ‘ I 'm so afraid that the motor areas are taking over ; but at least reflex actions are true to oneself , which is more than I can say for blind hatred . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for your companion . |
| 16 | To get both the 250 and the 125 race is more than I could have imagined . ’ |
| 17 | It 's more than I can get from any other job in Oklahoma . |
| 18 | But why he seems to think we should want to have anything to do with him and his fancy talk — that 's more than I can imagine . |
| 19 | It 's any that I can talk over it . |
| 20 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
| 21 | I remember the look of relief on your face when you told me it was all over-that I could return home and forget it ever happened . |