Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] all [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked the experience of being in a room full of people you did n't know , and knowing by the end of the evening you would all be bosom buddies |
| 2 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 3 | You can all be scientists today by helping me do some magic science tricks |
| 4 | The grown-up version , now chancellor himself , would doubtless cringe at the Macmillan rhetoric of 34 years ago — ‘ we must all be expansionists … |
| 5 | Chris Patten says he 's launching a discussion we must all be part of . |
| 6 | Alice was already thinking : Yes , tonight you 'd think we 'll all be friends for life , we could never harm each other , but it could all change , just like that ! |
| 7 | He 'll come back , and we 'll all be friends again . |
| 8 | Jes ’ stay cool an' we 'll all be outa here in no time . |
| 9 | If there were a formula for making profit , we 'd all be millionaires |
| 10 | If coaching were simply a matter of putting down on a piece of paper 10 points to improve , we 'd all be world beaters . |
| 11 | We 'd all be criminals if we could n't get caught . |
| 12 | If we were n't , we 'd all be Klingons . |
| 13 | ‘ By the end of the decade we shall all be publishers . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , my dear , we can all be servants , one to another , depending on the need , ca n't we ? ’ |
| 15 | Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other . |
| 16 | That 's the erm perfect the battery cars you see because they 'll all be battery driven very small units most of the cars will be |
| 17 | And they 'll all , they 'll all be drinkers . |
| 18 | It 's a pity they ca n't make a living at it then they 'd all be millionaires and prices 'd be better . " |
| 19 | They would all be troglodytes before the war was over , thought Lucinda , with eyes that stood out on little stalks . |
| 20 | They would all be folk engineers for South |
| 21 | To Ian 's suggestion that it must all be part of some exhibition Susan replies with the more plainly obvious answer — these things have not been made larger , the time-travellers have become smaller . |
| 22 | It might all be nonsense , she thought , but it certainly tied a few things together . |
| 23 | ‘ So it 'll all be news to him , will it ? ’ |
| 24 | Now if they pull it off everybody 'll heave a sigh of relief and their methods will be forgiven , and if they do n't then it 'll all be Number 10 's fault and that would probably suit their book just as much as coming good on Plainsong itself . ’ |
| 25 | But I imagine it 'll all be people on that list who were involved in training , I ca n't remember . |
| 26 | Nothing , absolutely nothing , so instead of thinking oh , what am I going to do about this , and can I get round here , if I turn round here , can I get round these bends or something , no I ca n't , it 'll all be sort of , no . |
| 27 | But it would all be lies . |
| 28 | But in fact it would all be T V and the Sun and the Mirror , and nothing else would be around very much . |
| 29 | In the end , though , it would all be bang on and tickety boo ( or was that the wrong war ? ) because Rupert , the sexiest of the pilots , managed to win through . |