Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should be getting back . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We should be getting back , ’ said Preston , and he started the car . |
| 3 | Perhaps we should be getting back to the roots of organisations like the RA and footpath preservation societies in encouraging people to wander more freely and make use of neglected local paths . |
| 4 | But I think I should be getting back … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , we should be getting back upstairs , as you still have to change , ’ Nicky mentioned . |
| 6 | ‘ I think we should be getting back , ’ she muttered hoarsely . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're right , we should be getting back , ’ he said . |
| 8 | By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with . |
| 9 | He did n't know why he was saying these words ; deep down he knew that he should be running back to the truck and getting the rescue organized . |
| 10 | But the same time as we were hearing that we should be cutting back , the news was also full of adverts . |
| 11 | Whatever they are not holding , should be hitting back mercilessly . |
| 12 | ‘ Must be getting back to Brigade H.Q , Sarge , ’ I remarked as I picked up my rifle and prepared to leave . |
| 13 | ‘ I must be getting back , Howard . |
| 14 | And now , if you 'll excuse me , I must be getting back . |
| 15 | But once the contents of these plans got around the rumours died down and people began to say that the family must be coming back . ’ |
| 16 | I use to drink scrumpy you know , you know , I , I mean , I must be going back before your time , you know , a long time , you know , we 're talking about drinking scrumpy in the thirties and forty and fifties , when scrumpy was scrumpy and when we were glad of it Oh , I use to love the old scrumpy . |
| 17 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 18 | They might be coming back round . |
| 19 | All kinds of things might be happening back home . |
| 20 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 21 | We follow a family from the region having to manage without their car — and they 'll be reporting back on how they got on . |
| 22 | They 'll be reporting back to us later this week on how they coped without a car and with their views on how public transport filled the gap — or not , in ’ The Road Ahead ’ . |
| 23 | I 'll be looking back again to see … the last things |
| 24 | Before we go a word about tomorrow night 's programme when we 'll be looking back at some of the highlights from the first ten years of Central News . |
| 25 | ‘ If that 's all then , I 'll be getting back home . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I guess you 'll be getting back for the Soviet visit , now . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll be writing back to her about it soon . |
| 28 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 29 | ‘ But thankfully it looks like things 'll be gittin' back to normal again round these parts . |
| 30 | ‘ They 'll be coming back from church soon — and Dorothy , too — and I do n't want you embarrassed . ’ |