Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 2 | Right I might be going up Parsons tomorrow or Wednesday I do n't know , so did you want anything up there ? |
| 3 | Three , right I 'll be going to Chester again tomorrow |
| 4 | ‘ It works in exactly the same way only I 'll be going down instead of across . |
| 5 | Only I would be left . |
| 6 | Perhaps I shall be making those , so if I |
| 7 | If England had not been so successful , then perhaps I would be moaning . |
| 8 | ‘ Since I have heard this particular sermon frequently , ’ he said , ‘ perhaps I might be allowed to provide an exegesis of the text . |
| 9 | Perhaps I may be permitted to quote from Morris Zapp 's lecture on ‘ Textuality as striptease ’ in my novel , Small World : |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I may be permitted to take you , ’ Lubor jumped in before she could draw another breath . |
| 11 | As he is interested in having inaccuracies corrected , perhaps I may be permitted to clear up some which appeared in his letter . |
| 12 | Perhaps I may be allowed to paraphrase for brevity from Scientists against Time by J. P. Baxter in his official account of the American Office of Scientific Research and Development : |
| 13 | Editor , — As one of the two speakers criticised in Council by Mr John Chawner for saying that schemes for tax relief on child care were non-starters and a waste of health service money perhaps I may be allowed to draw attention to a debate earlier that day . |
| 14 | At any rate , perhaps I may be allowed to communicate with Your Majesty on this point , or ask my Private Secretary to discuss it with Sir Michael Adeane . |
| 15 | Better still , but perhaps I should be acting not entertaining . |
| 16 | Because if we ca n't generalize then I , perhaps I should be talking about British foreign policy or Iranian foreign policy or South African foreign policy are there generalizations we can make and say well it is similar for all governments ? |
| 17 | If I were a scientist , perhaps I 'd be looking at it , and say , what does that mean in terms of weather , what does it mean in terms of pressure , is it cumulus cloud or says , what other cloud . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I ca n't say that I 've really earned this , ’ said John , taking a cup , ‘ but perhaps I can be forgiven my first day . |
| 19 | And now finally — as we always seem to be saying at the conclusion of our news bulletins — perhaps I can be allowed one or two serious observations . |
| 20 | Perhaps I will be thought outspoken , but so often it is those people who have moved into the country that complain . |
| 21 | So obviously I 'll be asking well I 'll be asking Catherine how to do things |
| 22 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
| 23 | So I might be doing tennis then . |
| 24 | Now I 've had two of those rest days prior to all this so I would be owed a fortnight 's holiday pay plus three rest days . |
| 25 | Erm no it 's more likely to be a calendar month that she works on and fortunately February has four weeks in it this year for where our pay day is so I would be putting it in sort of like Feb first . |
| 26 | There 's a slide projector at the back of the hall which I can control from the front so I may be aiming to get some slides for you instead of the overhead projector . |
| 27 | so I 'll be looking more towards that now and end up thinking that 's the harder . |
| 28 | So I 'll be expecting a big pay rise at the end of it . |
| 29 | So I 'll be obliged if you two gents would drink up and leave . ’ |
| 30 | so I 'll be getting that phone bill within the next fortnight , right , but bear in mind June June and December we were n't really doing anything for three weeks |