Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right lovely thank you Ah I suppose I better be off to work . |
| 2 | Would I ever be back ? |
| 3 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 5 | Would you personally be more motivated and work more effectively if you were to receive a share of the profit at the year end ? |
| 6 | ‘ Norman Campbell , why must you always be so cynical and spoil things for the child ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ God , why must you always be so reasonable ? |
| 8 | And if he does , will she still be there to celebrate ? |
| 9 | She probably be round at some point today , wo n't she ? |
| 10 | oh well , she probably be there cos she 's , she 's got flu . |
| 11 | Like , why should we even be there ? ’ |
| 12 | But can we then be quite sure that at a later stage , when the same kind of performance has been taken out of the service and then out of the church , the signal is unambiguously to ‘ art ’ ? |
| 13 | Can I ask you , are you at all nervous about what 's happening in the Gulf in the sense I mean should we actually be there doing what we 're doing erm as part of the Allied Force , does that make you nervous ? |
| 14 | In particular , what hours would be applicable to children and should they only be there if they are eating a meal or snack ? |
| 15 | I bet they probably be really competing with them in a way wo n't we cos they 've got all the same sort of stuff . |
| 16 | With these qualities they well be fully prepared for the big trial , but they must also know themselves in the deepest sense — ‘ to be in touch ’ , as Scott frequently mentions , ‘ with that critical inner voice . ’ |
| 17 | Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . |
| 18 | If you have such a policy if you were to have criteria of the kind I 'm alluded to erm does that still leave it too open in North Yorkshire , might it still be too wide too many erm er opportunities might meet locations might meet these criteria . |
| 19 | How can he possibly be still alive with that large hole in his back ? ’ |
| 20 | but I mean , you know it 'll be quite nice , it also be quite nice if it was raised |
| 21 | But how could it honestly be otherwise ? |
| 22 | Could anyone really be that slow on the uptake ? wondered Pascoe . |
| 23 | Could he really be almost sixty ? |
| 24 | Could it really be so easy to pull the wool over Mr X 's eyes ? |
| 25 | And can it really be so simple ? |
| 26 | Can it really be that five ‘ O ’ levels , no original ideas and a pretty indifferent speaking ability is ‘ adequate ’ for an MP ? |
| 27 | Can it really be only two years since he was taking 4 for 36 for England against the Windward Islands ? |
| 28 | Can it really be only 18 months ago that the Surrey opening bowler was dispatching Martin Crowe in successive one-day internationals ? |
| 29 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 30 | Escort Revisited Can it really be as duff as we said it was ? 64 |