Example sentences of "i [modal v] be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 2 | The person undertaking , if required to sign , states : " I understand the undertaking that I have given , and that if I break any of my promises to the court I may be sent to prison for contempt of court " . |
| 3 | Then again , I may be struck by lightning before I reach the church . |
| 4 | I may be tempted towards didacticism , but this is n't an advice column . |
| 5 | The last sentence could be expanded to ‘ I may be going on holiday with Richard Molland but I 'm not sure . ’ |
| 6 | If you have information to sell , be so good as to state your price , that I may be left in privacy . |
| 7 | I kept going to the toilet , positive that I must be bleeding to death . |
| 8 | ‘ TB , ’ he muttered , ‘ I must be dying of love . ’ |
| 9 | It may not impress you , but there 's a man I should be defending in court all day , and it 's nearly dawn . |
| 10 | I mean I should be finished in time for that weekend . |
| 11 | In the meantime , please do n't hesitate to contact me if there is anything urgent that I should be doing in connection with Olympus . |
| 12 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 13 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 14 | To think I imagined I might be falling in love with him ! she thought , as she went into the kitchen . |
| 15 | I think I might be falling in love , the words kept running through her brain . |
| 16 | I had a flimsy recollection of being afraid of getting drowned ; now I had a flimsy suspicion that I might be buried under snow and never rise again to the surface . |
| 17 | I might be going to Heaven . |
| 18 | Thank you also for the ten pound cheque which I 'll be donating to Cancer Research , Yours sincerely , Angela . |
| 19 | If I give myself up , I 'll be charged with murder . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll be looking like soup , ca n't we have a change sometimes , Angharad ? ’ |
| 21 | I 'll be getting into conversation with one of these fibreglass ladies . |
| 22 | ROLF VOSS of Yalbury Cottage Hotel is not amused when I refuse to book in via credit card — ‘ I 'll be paying by cash . ’ |
| 23 | That 's it , I 'll be going on holiday there . |
| 24 | ‘ Better that than a coffin , ’ he whispered , adding as he leaned in to retrieve his fiddle : ‘ And if my coffin is half as comfortable ‘ t is a smooth journey I 'll be having to Paradise . ’ |
| 25 | Do n't forget I 'll be coming to bed . |
| 26 | As it 's such a broad field , I 'll be concentrating on software for creating and manipulating illustrations — either to be used on their own or with DTP and word processing applications . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll be concentrating on Access . |
| 28 | One way or another I 'm going to have to decide over the weekend — and it 's looking unlikely I 'll be driving at Easter , ’ he says . |
| 29 | I shout and shout for all the warmth of company I 'll be missing at dinner — and the sweat pours from me . |
| 30 | ‘ At the time I was convinced it was an allergic reaction to something because I could n't believe I could be suffering from acne at my age ’ . |