Example sentences of "i [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have to be in the workshop finishing that brooch . |
| 2 | I 'd want to be with him , working alongside him . |
| 3 | I know you were proud to give Anne away , and I 'd love to be with you and all the family , but we only have two days ’ leave . |
| 4 | I 'd love to be like my mother . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm a free agent and like any other driver I 'd love to be in the Williams . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd prefer to be on my own patch to handle this one . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ Pink said , ‘ I 'd prefer to be on a building site than be a government scientist in this day and age . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd hate to be in his way , or to be his enemy . |
| 9 | I 'd have to be in a grown-up panto — called something like Mother 's Goosed . |
| 10 | I 'd like to be on the lovely buses . |
| 11 | ‘ If you do n't mind , I 'd like to be on my way pretty soon . |
| 12 | She looked him in the eye and admitted , ‘ If you have nothing better to do , I 'd like to be with you , Miguel . ’ |
| 13 | Er if my choice , I 'd like to be in the docks , but things can not ha happen that way , we 've got a lot o , a lot of the yuppies moving in that area , and that seems to be taking over that area so no chance of a football stadium there . |
| 14 | mind you I 'd like to be like that |
| 15 | ‘ I would like to , I think — but I 'm afraid I might be like that — I think I would want to be like that . |
| 16 | If I can get through this season and maybe onto the ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand , then I would hope to be in a position to start having a big influence on matches , rather than just reacting to events as they happen ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I would prefer to be of help to you and Nader , ’ she explained , ‘ rather than wait around for news of Philippe that may never come . ’ |
| 18 | I would love to be like Shadow . |
| 19 | ‘ I would love to be in partnership with someone who would do all the work , and leave me 50 per cent . |
| 20 | The easiest uses to come to grips with are exclamations such as ( 1 ) above , because they give a very clear impression of somehow looking at the infinitive event from a position before : they express a desire or longing to realize the infinitive event , so that ( 1 ) might be paraphrased " I would love to be in England … |
| 21 | ‘ I said that I could not commit myself as my academic time was not yet finished , but I would like to be at their disposal later . ’ |
| 22 | I would like to be in my old home in the Wallowa country . |
| 23 | ‘ Through one acquisition or a combination of acquisitions , I would like to be in excess of $100m in revenue in Italy when we go into next year , but that will only happen if we find the right match . |
| 24 | I also have an idealized picture of myself — what I would like to be in an ideal world . |
| 25 | I would hate to be like that . ’ |
| 26 | I would hate to be in the royal family . |
| 27 | I would have to be in love with someone to do that . |
| 28 | ‘ I shall have to be at Hillmarden . |
| 29 | I assure you I will strive to be of more worth to the Gold Dragon Hung . |
| 30 | The best I can hope for is to be dragged home and given stuff to make me manageable . |