Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am very honoured as Rector to be associated with this great University and hope that during my period of office should you decide to come here , that I may be of assistance to you during that time . |
| 2 | I 've come to see if I may be of use . ’ |
| 3 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 4 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 5 | ‘ I must be off home . |
| 6 | I think truly , he thinks I must be in love with him , and he does n't want to complicate things . " |
| 7 | I think I must be in love . |
| 8 | I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt . |
| 9 | I should be in life class . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm in training and I should be in bed now . |
| 11 | I know , he 's , it 's like a claim to I should be in charge . |
| 12 | I might be on shift work . |
| 13 | If Mrs Marr had by any chance returned , I might be of use . ’ |
| 14 | Dear me , thought Franca , then perhaps I might be in danger of actually becoming as saintly as I seem ! |
| 15 | Er so I might be in touch with you after that . |
| 16 | Something that if ever , ever sorted out the bleeper hopefully in future I 'll be on bleeper , and then if that sort of thing happens |
| 17 | Since I 'll be on call anyway , it would seem more sensible for me to fill both roles . ’ |
| 18 | Call me soon ; I 'll be on time next time . " |
| 19 | I 'll be on match team . |
| 20 | I 'll be on match team . |
| 21 | I 'll be at ringside , I 'll embarrass him into fighting me . |
| 22 | But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be at home . |
| 24 | I 'll be at home , idiot , or er , it 's in Kent so I can get dad to pick them up for me |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 'll be at work . ’ |
| 26 | And I 'll be at work myself most of the time . |
| 27 | So I 'll be at work that Sunday . |
| 28 | Not me cos I 'll be at work . |
| 29 | Erm I do n't think I can cos I 'll be at work . |
| 30 | I 'll be at church . |