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Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ How long do you think I 'll be with you ? ’
2	‘ You 'd think I would be over this by now , ’ Mait said darkly , eyeing the lake .
3	‘ Why did you think I 'd be at Julius 's London flat ? ’
4	I do n't think I 'd be in very good you know , in your good books if I did that ?
5	‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I do n't think I can be of much help to you .
6	‘ What makes you think I can be of help ? ’
7	Misreading the crumpled instructions I took the steps to the first floor , realised I should be on the fourth , so ran and eased myself through the closing lift doors , coming face to face with Malc .
8	Er well I 'm sixty-five you see , so I mean I would be in my forties would n't I you see .
9	Well like I said I think probably they 're really kicking themselves I mean I would be in their situation .
10	I agree , its , its like those their lovely little things , do n't think of buying , it 's not very fair cos I mean , Mar , I mean I 'd be over the moon if someone bought me one of those bags .
11	I think truly , he thinks I must be in love with him , and he does n't want to complicate things . "
12	I could n't know I 'd be on a murder case . "
13	‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now .
14	‘ I expect she will be at Jeffrey 's party , ’ said Major .
15	‘ I expect you 'll be in a hurry to rescue them , ’ it added .
16	Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years .
17	Well that 's what I 'm saying about the image of the drinking er I guarantee you could as you know as you say you could be in a pub all afternoon all evening all night with maybe twenty people having a music session and ten of them might n't be drinking at all .
18	However deeply involved she might be in her own conversation she rarely missed anything that was said by those around her .
19	‘ I did n't know we would be in Spain for so long . ’
20	‘ How did you know we 'd be in Alnwick ?
21	as I say we 'll be in touch with you in in that three months time
22	If comparisons are included they may be with an artist whose work is considered by the author to be inferior to the subject of the monograph .
23	Drug users say they could be at increased risk from AIDS after a decision to stop giving them free clean syringes .
24	They say they could be in business within 5 years , moving water from the wet north to the dry south and putting an end to drought .
25	‘ I did n't know it 'd be like that , ’ she said , as she lay in his arms .
26	‘ I did n't know it could be like that , ’ she whispered .
27	She said , ‘ I did n't know it could be like that . ’
28	It seems to me , and we shall look at this in Chapter Seven when we examine the notion of unconscious learning in drama , that there is some truth in Brian Way 's claim that relishing and enjoying something without fully understanding it can be of value .
29	Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said he expects to ship the follow-on to Windows 3.1 , codenamed Chicago , in 1994 but declined to say at what point in the year the upgraded system will be launched : ‘ We should debunk any notion that Chicago is around the corner , ’ Gates told an audience of developers sponsored by Microsoft — ‘ All we can say is we expect it will be in 1994 and we 'll keep people in touch on that . ’
30	Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said he expects to ship the follow-on to Windows 3.1 , codenamed Chicago , in 1994 but declined to say at what point in the year the upgraded system will be launched : ‘ We should debunk any notion that Chicago is around the corner , ’ Gates told an audience of developers sponsored by Microsoft — ‘ All we can say is we expect it will be in 1994 and we 'll keep people in touch on that . ’