Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Saint I may be but schmuck I ai n't . |
| 2 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
| 3 | She had thanked me for ‘ the deep and exhaustive treatment ’ , and added characteristically : ‘ I can not help being pleased — grateful though I should be and am to her in a way — for Pamela Handford [ sic ] Johnson 's errors to be pointed out . |
| 4 | Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms . |
| 5 | When other people made a fuss of him , he hardly bothered with them , preferring to go over to wherever I might be and just sit there looking at me with those eyes . |
| 6 | Cripes , I thought , and although as certain as I could be that the lad was not mine , who can be totally positive about any putative event of twenty years earlier ? |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know how good I could be and still do n't know that . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't know how good I could be and still do n't know that . |
| 9 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 10 | The afternoon job , grass boy , seemed to offer a wonderful chance to make amends , to show how responsible I could be when the opportunity arose … to show my initiative … |
| 11 | What a sad creature I 'd be if I could n't promise future children black , peaty lochans full of newts , hillsides teeming with deer , hares and stoats and skies full of soaring majestic birds . |
| 12 | Sure , I could adapt any song and get away with it , but I ca n't say I 'd be as satisfied doing it that way , and I certainly would n't choose to interpret those things on one guitar . ’ |
| 13 | Ooh I do n't know what age I 'd be when we went up there . |
| 14 | It 's quite Crampsy , I probably would n't be as swift to the bar when they started playing as I would be when the Lemonheads were on , though . |
| 15 | Maybe I 'm being a bit more tolerant towards him than I would be if I had n't met him . |
| 16 | ‘ I would be if Kate were happy . ’ |
| 17 | Or I would be if it were n't for the circumstances . |
| 18 | The the sort of thing that that I would be if I were in running your function Terry , would be to say , look at this package that we 've developed for P T E stations . |
| 19 | I would be if I did that , if I just did n't eat . |
| 20 | I shall be if you keep on coming here . |
| 21 | I 'm more than willing to carve my own career — I 'm raring to go , at least I shall be if I get my degree and if I can shake off this horrible mononucleosis , as Dr Newne pompously insists on calling it ! |
| 22 | That 's what I will be when I |
| 23 | ‘ I will be as soon as you get your fat self outta here . ’ |
| 24 | I will be if I have the strength . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 'm certain as I can be that they ca n't win unless they have your grandfather . |
| 26 | But I am as sure as I can be that the uncertainties and multiple complexities , the appalling human and social cost , and what is in my view the cynicism of this war , will demand a far higher price for a far more dangerous future . |
| 27 | One of them might be as follows : |
| 28 | It is a remarkable fact , Mr Hopkins , that the argument used by the serpent to seduce Eve from her allegiance to her Creator is almost precisely that used by the Editor of The Times : " Ye shall be as GODS , knowing good and evil " … that is , as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 29 | ‘ If by any chance the police pull us in on suspicion they 've got ter 'ave an identification parade , an' if the old watchman recognises any of us we 're done for , unless 'e 's too frightened ter pick us out , an' 'e will be if 'e knows we 're capable o' smackin' 'im around a bit . |
| 30 | Working girl she may be but , having turned 40 , Sigourney Weaver ( right ) took time out for motherhood |