Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might be there or I might be with Roy , I do n't know . |
| 2 | do n't no do n't say that to her or I 'll be in the dog house |
| 3 | ‘ But I suppose I must keep my mouth shut or I will be in trouble . |
| 4 | I , however , could only be a nun like my aunt or I could be like my Mam . |
| 5 | Leave the area southbound or you may be under arrest . ’ |
| 6 | Or you may be like those who tell me they 've used what could have been a disaster to make their lives more what they wanted them to be . |
| 7 | Now Miss Stobbs ' mother Margaret has warned other brides : ‘ Check your car is still available or you could be in trouble . ’ |
| 8 | If Mrs Jones is looking uncomfortable , she may have wet herself , or she may be in a lot of pain . |
| 9 | ( ii ) gave money to the addict in your life because he or she would be in trouble if you did not . |
| 10 | He or she will be of course one of the nation 's teachers of the year . |
| 11 | They are confident that , highly skilled and dedicated and absolutely tireless , the surgeon will treat each operation — no matter how many operations he or she carries out that day … that week … that year — as unique and fascinating , that he or she will be in top form — for them . |
| 12 | 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day . |
| 13 | Paddy and I shared the neurosis of spending longer than necessary calculating where we would be on what date if we maintained that day 's speed . |
| 14 | A number of the grants , virtually all of the grants are to voluntary bodies who are providing services which are of considerable benefit to this Committee , and where we would be in some difficulty if they did n't give those of voluntary support to it . |
| 15 | " Exactly where we 'd be without them . |
| 16 | ‘ So you 'd better hurry please , or we 'll be for it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There are grilles high up in the walls , so whatever happens do n't make a sound or we 'll be in a cell so fast your head will spin . ’ |
| 18 | There will inevitably be occasions — hopefully few — when your pay is incorrect or there may be times when you want to question the amount you have received . |
| 19 | However , because of the immense potential for the integrated ( ie raster/ASCII/vector ) systems that were under development , the point was made that the strategy could be to plan their eventual use for those functions where they could be of value . |
| 20 | Or they may be of a different kind . |
| 21 | These relations may be of the paradigmatic variety ( e.g. oppositeness , synonymy , etc. ) or they may be of the so-called paronymic sort ( that is to say , involving identity of root , but difference of syntactic category , as , for instance , with act : actor , race : racy . |
| 22 | Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July . |
| 23 | ‘ He was enormously complex and he had an almost inner pain about who he was sexually , what his role was , where he should be in life . |
| 24 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |
| 25 | Belief , in this sense , facilitates a more abstract acceptance of conformity ; it leads us to conform in the absence of immediate personal advantage from doing so ( or even where it would be to our advantage not to do so ) . |
| 26 | Another aspect of the rights of the pupil in relation to his record is his right to have the record disclosed where it will be to his benefit and to prevent disclosure elsewhere . |
| 27 | While she has /r/ in person where it should be in JC , she has pronounced /r/ at the end of mother , where Jamaicans usually do not pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where historically it is absent : in this last case displaying the type of hypercorrection for which John F. Kennedy ( a speaker of the r-less Boston English ) was famous . |
| 28 | They may be able to order bricks of a particular type if they do n't have them in stock , or it may be worth investigating whether second-hand bricks are available from demolition contractors in your area . |
| 29 | Or it may be for rule breach , such as a late delivery under the LIFFE Bund contract . |
| 30 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |