Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] be [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now I must be five years clear of her , and she said she 'd kill me if I ever told anyone her age . |
| 2 | How odd that I should be nine cents adrift |
| 3 | I sha n't let her do a thing , cause I 'll be two steps afront of her all the time . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll be about two mi I 'll be two seconds |
| 5 | I 'll be five minutes . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll be five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I could be three seconds out , ’ said the Thing . |
| 8 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd be ten years , about . |
| 10 | ‘ Next year I shall be fifty years old . |
| 11 | ‘ In August , ’ she said suddenly , without changing the direction of her gaze , ‘ next August , I shall be ninety years old . ’ |
| 12 | A : I will be three months on November 8 . |
| 13 | ‘ Bloody hell , ’ he breathed in admiration , ‘ you must be fifty pounds if you 're an ounce . ’ |
| 14 | he was greatly concerned , too , with getting the correct scale of things , emphasising that the eye can only see at one glance an object which in size is one-third of the distance between the object and that eye ; in other words if you are painting a man six feet high you should be 18 feet away from him . |
| 15 | Well you could never , you could never rely on shipment , cos one time you 'd get a lot of shipment and the next time you might be six weeks and get no shipment , so who 's gon na pay them their money ? |
| 16 | So in approximately one year you might be fourteen months or fifteen months ? |
| 17 | She would be ten minutes . |
| 18 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
| 19 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 20 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll be two horses short , ’ the thin man put in . |
| 22 | ‘ You run the barrow and the shop and we 'll be fifty-fifty partners . ’ |
| 23 | Then we can be three weeks in Paris . |
| 24 | Japanese drift-nets in the 1970s were about 15 km ( 10 miles ) in length , but now they may be four times that length . |
| 25 | It does n't matter that they may be 700 miles away at the other end of a data link . |
| 26 | They must be forty years old , at least . |
| 27 | Phone call at 1.45 — they 'll be five minutes late . |
| 28 | I mean y when th I mean a gang on a timber boat , they 'd be ten men and one hatch man and that 's eleven men . |
| 29 | Finally , someone once calculated that if the pillars and spires were stood one on top of the other they would be 5,300 metres high . |
| 30 | Oh they would be ten feet long anyway |