Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb mod] be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | What will happen to me , how I 'll develop , what I 'll be in five years ' time , in ten , in thirty . |
2 | The job may go under different titles on different stations around the world , but essentially that 's what I 'll be from Monday on , even if you do earn more than me . ’ |
3 | I du n no what I 'll be like at seven o'clock tonight . |
4 | The three weeks that I was in the scheme for — they trained me to see if I could do the job properly , they were able to see what I 'd be like when I was doing the job . |
5 | I do n't know what I 'd be like . |
6 | It 's difficult enough dealing with you when you 're halfway normal — I dread to think what you might be like in a state of delirium . ’ |
7 | The fresh air she breathed made pure blood for you , and often during the day she wondered what you would be like , whether your eyes would be blue or brown , and prayed God to make you a good child . |
8 | At the depth of a hundred feet , which is what we will be at , we could easily remain underwater for an hour without any risk of either oxygen poisoning or decompression illness . |
9 | Claims ( for what they may be worth ) for indemnity from a miscreant partner will more readily be encountered in the context of fraudulent activities in relation to the misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm , to which s11 of the Partnership Act is directed : In the following cases ; namely — ( a ) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives the money or property of a third person and misapplies it ; and ( b ) Where a firm in the course of its business receives money or property of a third person , and the money or property so received is misapplied by one or more of the partners while it is in the custody of the firm ; the firm is liable to make good the loss . |
10 | ‘ I dread to think what they 'll be like when Ronnie has a smile on his face — as he will when the Ports win the title back . ’ |
11 | Oh I wonder what they 'll be like , I do n't want them as tight as those others , yeah but it 's the legs and that , those others of mine , when I got them back they were really very ti tight |
12 | I thought about what they might be like . |
13 | It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important . |
14 | But she was thinking more of Ianthe Broome and the man she and Penelope had seen that afternoon , and wondering what they would be like . |
15 | On the first night of Gentle Jack , Ken knew what they would be like . |
16 | But there 's no clear idea of what they will be worth or how many private sector bidders there will be . |
17 | Most parents look at their young child and wonder what he 'll be like when he grows up . |
18 | So no does n't well you know what he 'll be like , he 'll be messing about all day . |
19 | His daughter had never seen her father and had no idea of what he would be like . |
20 | I found out tonight what he can be like when he 's angry . |
21 | God knows what it 'll be like in a real race . |
22 | You do n't know what it 'll be like , if it 'll be like the scenes you see on the news every night . |
23 | so er do n't know what it 'll be like . |
24 | what it 'll be like ? |
25 | Imagine what it might be like if , as humans , we had not only the senses of other creatures but the ability to understand these communications as they do . |
26 | When his plan is compared with Gandy 's ( Fig. 27a ) , the main difference lies in the care he has taken to consider what it might be like to live inside . |
27 | We can see what it might be like to have an intermittently updated world image , by using a stroboscope at night . |
28 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
29 | However , it will not provide the bumper take-out price implied by the recent performance of the Jaguar share price , offering instead some guidance as to what it might be in the future . |
30 | For what it may be worth , if I am wrong in my application of the neighbourhood test so that the disturbance has to be judged by pre-planning permission standards , I would have found that the heavy goods vehicles going to and from each of the fourth and fifth defendant 's operations constituted a material disturbance to the residents at night . |