Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unless your father wishes to detain me , I must be in Nanking three hours from now to meet Major Karr . ’ |
| 32 | I was beginning to think I must be in the doghouse for some reason . ’ |
| 33 | I think I must be in love . |
| 34 | Goodness , I must be in a state of trauma to have forgotten that none of them had drunk either at lunch-time or in the afternoon . ’ |
| 35 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
| 36 | This was not an area I was likely to visit but , nevertheless , my poor mother , hearing the report on the wireless , was sure that I must be among the casualties ! |
| 37 | had something else that I was just doing and I thought Oh I should be at Ian 's for five o'clock . |
| 38 | I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt . |
| 39 | Misreading the crumpled instructions I took the steps to the first floor , realised I should be on the fourth , so ran and eased myself through the closing lift doors , coming face to face with Malc . |
| 40 | I should be on a golf course really ! |
| 41 | I should be on five . |
| 42 | My father 's very ill and I should be with him . ’ |
| 43 | bores him , but he wo n't and then it pulls me , I want to do what the majority wants to do and then he do n't and I feel guilty cos I think oh I should be with him , but |
| 44 | I should be off Tuesday , Wednesday |
| 45 | Once inside the Stone Hall of Judgement , once subjected to the decision of the Twelve Stone Judges who pronounce on all Mortal creatures , I believed I should be beyond all hope of escape . ’ |
| 46 | Surely I should be over the field in no time . |
| 47 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 48 | I should be over the moon ; instead … ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I 'm in training and I should be in bed now . |
| 50 | The idea was that I should be in the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct . |
| 51 | I should be in England by the summer of that year at the latest . |
| 52 | Gently advised that he should n't be there the sunbather retorted , ‘ You 're right , I should be in Malaga ’ . |
| 53 | ‘ I 'm sick of reading that I should be in the England side . |
| 54 | I should be in life class . |
| 55 | ‘ I should be in the way , ’ he said firmly . |
| 56 | But I should be in the way from here on . |
| 57 | I should be in some embarrassment if my name were to appear in the newspapers , for instance . ’ |
| 58 | I replied at once to say that I should be in London shortly and suggested a meeting on Thursday , 14 May . |
| 59 | ‘ I should be in Geneva now … |
| 60 | So hopefully by the erm , I should be in a position by the next Council meeting , to report that we should be in a position to be up and running on the seventeenth of January . |