Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 19th of May I was underneath the stage in the Globe . |
| 2 | ‘ May I be of assistance ? ’ |
| 3 | How may I be of assistance ? ’ — wo n't let you get away with : ‘ Er , egg and bacon and toast and coffee please , miss . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Monsieur — Madame — May I be of assistance ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ May I be of assistance ? ’ he ventured . |
| 6 | ‘ May I be among the first to offer my congratulations ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 8 | Why should I be like this ? ’ |
| 9 | And the more dubious must we be of sweeping generalisations made on the basis of such statistics . |
| 10 | And so you go back and you say to your brother I just can not give this , it 's impossible you see , well should we be like that ? |
| 11 | On most boards the footstraps can be fitted when you improve so on no account should they be on the board when you learn as they can get in your way as you step around the board . |
| 12 | But why should they be in the hills ? |
| 13 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 14 | If she had failed to love her mother , she the missionary , what must it be like for people who , without God , had not even got a Christian obligation to try ? |
| 15 | What must it be like for Joshua ? |
| 16 | What must it be like to be imprisoned here , day after day , month after month ? |
| 17 | Sometimes , overhearing the heckling and the comments in the street , she had wondered , What must it be like , to have a man think so dirty about you ? |
| 18 | What must it be like ? |
| 19 | What must it be like to be them ? ’ |
| 20 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 21 | What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran , watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery ? |
| 22 | But what must it be like for other organisations who are now having to make money out of news . |
| 23 | If ROI , should it be on an historic or current cost-accounting basis ? |
| 24 | Should it be of happiness or of sorrow ? |
| 25 | He 'll I 'm on stealth . |
| 26 | " Might you be in need of some darnel seed by any chance ? " |
| 27 | It was not publishable as it stood , said Michael , but might it be of interest to me ? |
| 28 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |
| 29 | ‘ What 'll he be at next ? ’ |
| 30 | What 'll it be like when the public come through the door ? |