Example sentences of "[modal v] [det] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Invite a couple of footy-mad friends round and you 'll all be over the moon .
32 They 'll all be after .
33 ‘ You see , ’ the barmaid said , ‘ next week , they 'll all be in here with their tails between their legs .
34 ‘ By the time them places is finished , ’ said Albert , ‘ our lot 'll all be in the graveyard .
35 They 'll all be in Camp for the festival .
36 ‘ At nine o'clock we 'll all be in the shelter , like as not .
37 ‘ If the French have taken that damned crossroads , we 'll all be in the dark .
38 We 'll all be in the kitchen , so
39 As I shall say to her , it might all be for the best — now that he is king , I expect Edward will decide for himself whom to marry . ’
40 Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful .
41 Who on earth could that be at this hour ?
42 Could this be at the end of the vacuum-packed salami syndrome ? ’
43 Could this be with Stavanger 's knowledge ?
44 Could this be of any use ? ’
45 In addition , as a ley , the markers could all be of the same age .
46 ‘ Make sure you get this right , you guys , or we could all be in the dole queue on Monday . ’
47 They could all be in contention to secure longer deals .
48 ‘ They 'd all be off home ! ’
49 ‘ Patsy Pill would have a fit if she found out , and we 'd all be at defaulters ’ . '
50 If you had n't been here we 'd all be in a far worse pickle .
51 And suddenly we 'd all be in Amsterdam or Paris or something like somebody 's idea of America for the evening , or else it would still be our own dear city , but from very definitely another era , all striped Regency wallpaper and framed Angus McBean photographs of Vivien Leigh ; or another time there 'd be nothing but opera on the sound system for a whole week , there 'd be complaints of course but Madame would say , I 'm just trying to give you boys an education , and Gary at least would be very happy .
52 If the [ bobbies ] heard there was a break-in , or anything , they 'd all be in a rush to get there .
53 And er er drop them in the in the blacksmith 's shop , and then when he 'd finished with them , when he 'd done 'em , they 'd all be in a tub down at the pit bottom .
54 They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there .
55 These topics may all be within some children 's experience .
56 Their parents , brothers , and sisters may all be in Britain but they are still being excluded .
57 The separate fields may have been supplied by different people or they may all be in separate parts of the mind of the same person .
58 What would , what would that be at the point two ?
59 time would that be about that you started
60 So would that be about er the late fifties or something you would you came here then yourself ?
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