Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously surrounded by school mates and push-bikes , he is now surrounded by the clinical smell of the hospital and the sight of other sick children , some of whom may be minus their hair . |
| 2 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 3 | Himself is right : half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob . |
| 4 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point means a police constable ( as opposed to a cadet ) or a traffic warden , both of whom must be in uniform . |
| 5 | They had not been schooled in the symptoms of such abuse , but she told reporters that the abuse of children was such a terrible problem in society , that everyone should be on the look-out for it . |
| 6 | SFE 's executive director , James Scott , said that no-one should be in any doubt about the importance of the financial sector to the country as a whole . |
| 7 | The statement went on to give full support to APEX 's decision to limit the number of pickets ; the TUC wished to stress to all trade unionists that any action by them should be at the union 's official request . |
| 8 | It 's the likes o' them should be at those meetin 's , an' if your people manages ter convert just a couple o' drunkards each time then they 've done a good job . |
| 9 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 10 | Er the point I would like to make if I may is with er regard to the question of a a positive statement er that car dependency should be reduced and er more emphasis given to the availability and use of bus transport erm as well as t er rail transport . |
| 11 | I 've come to see if I may be of use . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | BY the time you read this , I may be on my knees , along with millions of other Christian people , at the Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday . |
| 14 | ‘ I may be against this on principle but I do n't see why I should n't be able to make a little bit of capital , ’ he added . |
| 15 | ‘ Pray permit me to go to him , that I may be by his side at his coronation . |
| 16 | ‘ I may be in tears , ’ said Henry , ‘ I may just … you know … blub ! ’ |
| 17 | I now come to a very controversial point on which I may be in a minority , but I think there is far too much written material with classical CDs . |
| 18 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 19 | I may be in a murderous place , but I am in a sensible country . |
| 20 | Someone should be on watch . |
| 21 | I must be with my Minister at ten but I 'll come back for the funeral … or if anyone else wants to talk to me … ’ |
| 22 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |
| 23 | I must be on my way . " |
| 24 | " Well , I must be on my way . |
| 25 | Now , I must be on my way . |
| 26 | I knew I must be of officially dead . |
| 27 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 28 | 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 … ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ And now , Sergeant , I must be about my business . |