Example sentences of "you [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed and I think ye may be right , Malachi , ’ he said , coughing a little as the whiskey burned his throat . |
| 2 | ‘ Then ye must be crazy . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Ye must be shamed out of yer life , Mrs Donovan , ’ Bernadette piped up from her corner of the table . |
| 4 | ‘ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears ; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you ’ ( 2 Corinthians , 2:4 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Ye might be a boy , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ But ye might be right , ’ he conceded . |
| 7 | ‘ If ye hold one end o' the skipping-rope ye 'll be able tae stop me from slipping when I work down towards Dick . |
| 8 | ‘ Ye 'll be all right now , ’ Sheila called to him reassuringly . |
| 9 | Phillis said , ‘ Ye 'll be looking for fingerprints ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The sooner ye 're gone , the sooner ye 'll be back … then I 'll run ye up to Dublin and get ye on the plane , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 11 | That 's where ye 'll be living — near our hospital behind Hill Street which runs parallel to Main Street , but a wee bit up the hillside . ’ |
| 12 | Ye 'll be meeting Colonel Fawcett , ex-Royal Engineers , who 's the head man , and his two assistants , Bill Shanks who runs the radio link , and Jack Haslam , general factotum and the — best tennis player on the island . |
| 13 | But maybe ye 'll be different , ye just want a taste of the exotic life and then ye 'll go back to the big time . ’ |
| 14 | Ye 'll be drivin' when we take it over . |
| 15 | ‘ We were hoping ye 'd be able tae go wie Phillis , when she identifies the Weasel , ’ the cop said , ‘ that 's this fellow 's nickname . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Ye 'd be well advised tae listen , ’ the barman said to Rab . |
| 17 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Ye mean ye 'd be willin' to try and kill off her friends just to keep her to yerself ? ’ |
| 19 | And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you . |
| 20 | However , where the activities of one group restrict the freedoms , practices and conduct of another , such as events in Amritsar we shall clamp down — Sheikh/Sikh and ye shall be fined . |
| 21 | It is a remarkable fact , Mr Hopkins , that the argument used by the serpent to seduce Eve from her allegiance to her Creator is almost precisely that used by the Editor of The Times : " Ye shall be as GODS , knowing good and evil " … that is , as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 22 | Ye shall be judged as ye can spend . |
| 23 | Catch that train and the pair of ye will be in Dublin before nightfall . ’ |
| 24 | JUST when you may been ready to despair , it seems that this country of ours may have found something of its heart , or perhaps its soul . |
| 25 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
| 26 | One of the questions you may be asking yourself is ‘ Can I be taught to act ? ’ |
| 27 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 28 | You may be homeless but at least you 're not a dumb blonde like I am . ’ |
| 29 | If you are scratching in weak lift , you may be able to see which way you have drifted after a few circles . |
| 30 | As soon as you think you may be pregnant , and certainly by the time you 've missed two periods , go to your doctor for confirmation . |