Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't I be but one more sheep — |
| 2 | Old Mother Jacobsen would chuckle over this : ‘ How much wiser must I be than Odin , I who have neither eye ! ’ |
| 3 | So would I be if they were ordering an early confrontation with M Delors . |
| 4 | My good sister , how happy should I be if I might be admitted to a conversation with you at your grate . |
| 5 | What a creature must I be if you could not be abroad with a lady but I must be jealous of you ? |
| 6 | Will I be when my organs are removed ? |
| 7 | History of searching for a role ( ‘ What will I be when I grow up ? ’ ) . |
| 8 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 9 | ‘ And when you locked up after you , how certain could you be that there was no one here , perhaps hidden ? |
| 10 | So I asked myself where else would you be but at Tivoli watching the ballet ? ’ |
| 11 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 12 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 13 | ‘ And where would you be if he got killed ? |
| 14 | What sort of person should you be if you think advertising writing is the job for you ? |
| 15 | How much over-weight would you be if your baggage weighed 29kg . |
| 16 | ‘ For a friar I am very quick , My Lord Coroner , and so would you be if you drank less claret ! ’ |
| 17 | wha what 's what would your opinion be as as a church-comer would you be as we do n't know whether the Archbishop really said it cos it 's printed in the Sun for heaven 's sake . |
| 18 | — Where will you be when you 're twenty-five , Gazzer ? ’ |
| 19 | How could you be when I 've shown you nothing but contempt ? ’ |
| 20 | Where would we be but for the work done by previous generations ? |
| 21 | But the question remains , how confident can we be that a formula score is truly representative of the overall difficulty level ? |
| 22 | And , and you 'd , I 'd , you 'd say how long would we be and well we 'd come to er , you know , an agr |
| 23 | Where would we be if every patient did that ? |
| 24 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 25 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 26 | Well let her be if she 's happy . |
| 27 | Providing for your Dependants — will they be as well off after you have gone ? |
| 28 | Yeah but how stupid can they be because I mean the less of you are you , I mean you ca n't serve as many as it 's , it 's stupid in n it ? |
| 29 | How can it be that here , on a north-facing cliff , with nothing between it and the North pole and situated more than 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , the vegetation can look like that . |
| 30 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |