Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's 'ow I can be so sure , you see . |
| 2 | That 's 'ow I can be so certain about the expression on 'is face . |
| 3 | I 'm probably quite wrong about that , but you know , when I think of Matisse and Giacometti and people like that , I ca n't compare them ; I think they fall very much below I may be quite wrong about this below the qualities of Picasso , because I think Picasso has such a very universal sense of things . |
| 4 | Well , I played around a bit in my time but now I 've settled down I can be quite prudish , ’ Sue confesses . |
| 5 | Obviously I would be very loathe to agree to have to now provide different information again other than that which is going to be readily er available through the computers . |
| 6 | In ten seconds or so I would be either triumphant or in sackcloth and ashes . |
| 7 | There are other sites which my authority might note on that basis but which are not agreed with the County Council so I would be quite content with an increase in the Greater York figure on that basis . |
| 8 | But it 's a ten past ten flight , I 'll be left by half past nine so I 'll be there for half an hour |
| 9 | My fourth point is that again dealing with paragraph thirty three , it fails the second test where it should be a clear , and I would like to underline clear , expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities , now Mr Jewitt has already made the point so I 'll be very se very brief about this , but I my clients , Simon Smith 's brewery in Tadcaster , two off fifty seven |
| 10 | And , so I 'll be very surprised if he comes . |
| 11 | Just just er just so I can be absolutely sure about that I think I 'm say I 'm asking the same thing that the senior inspector 's just asked . |
| 12 | She is still in my mind and so I can be totally accurate in recording my responses and in describing what took place . |
| 13 | So I 'd be best to go back |
| 14 | So I 'd be very grateful therefore if er you could put your minds to the options and erm we could discuss that at the next board meeting . |
| 15 | So I 'd be more inclined , let me have a look at her when she comes in , send her up . |
| 16 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 17 | So I must be somewhere on the edge of — of Steel City . |
| 18 | Erm , and I 've just asked John , so I must be now with , no I 've just asked Kim , so I must be now with Philip . |
| 19 | Erm , and I 've just asked John , so I must be now with , no I 've just asked Kim , so I must be now with Philip . |
| 20 | I should have water for some hours yet , but I did n't know how long I 'd be ashore , and as the shingle here seemed fairly hard I reckoned I could get the rubber dinghy to the water even at low tide . |
| 21 | Necessities — who knows how long I 'd be away . |
| 22 | You rescued me from those gorillas at the garage , took me out to that dinner and , lo and behold , I came home to find my house ransacked by someone who must have known how long I 'd be away . |
| 23 | ‘ Basically you 'll be all right . |
| 24 | Nor how long she would be away . |
| 25 | So anyway I thought I wo n't have a drink cos if this secretary was n't there I did n't know how long she 'd be so er but I di I went upstairs to where we had the meeting with Mike the other week . |
| 26 | In one respect it is superior , as by staying lower down you will be constantly amazed by the ever changing scenery — higher up the views give you a good idea of the terrain you 'll be walking through the next day . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps you would be so kind as to empty the bath for me later ? ’ she asked , forcing a half smile and putting herself between Matthew and his sister . |
| 28 | ‘ If you should hear from Mr Beckenham in the meanwhile , perhaps you would be so kind as to inform me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd be better off asking the families of their victims how they feel , ’ hissed Nicholson , turning his full fury on Fairham . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps you should be more sure of your facts before inflicting punishment for sins committed only in your own imagination ! ’ |