Example sentences of "i [modal v] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am to show what I can do I must be given a chance to make my own complete performance . |
| 2 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 3 | Now I 've had two of those rest days prior to all this so I would be owed a fortnight 's holiday pay plus three rest days . |
| 4 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 5 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 6 | ‘ I like the exercise and , besides , I have two friends down the road in a Land Rover , ’ I said , implying that I would be given a lift . |
| 7 | You see , I would be teased a lot at school because I may not have been as quick as the others , but Bernard never joined in . |
| 8 | When I moved to Gloucestershire in 1961 I was told by a neighbour to lie low and remember that , although the progeny of an adjacent county ( Worcestershire ) , I would be held a foreigner by Gloucestershire folk for at least 25 years . |
| 9 | then this apparently gratuitous belief makes it the case again that I know that I will be given a lift . |