Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I did n't know you so intimately I could be convinced , but I know your sexuality and your demands — ’ |
| 2 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 3 | Except , a small protective inner voice prompted her hurtfully , that I 'm no long-term threat to your person or your property because in a few days ' time at the very most I shall be out of your land and out of your life . |
| 4 | For the next hour or thereabouts I shall be at the Burgers ’ house in Wood Lane . ’ |
| 5 | Right I might be going up Parsons tomorrow or Wednesday I do n't know , so did you want anything up there ? |
| 6 | Right I 'll be back in a tick . |
| 7 | Right I 'll be , I 'll be the . |
| 8 | Three , right I 'll be going to Chester again tomorrow |
| 9 | Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans . |
| 10 | Right I 'll be back in a second . |
| 11 | Fran , which means that eventually I shall be a major shareholder in the station . |
| 12 | But eventually I 'll be able to go to anyone I like if he 's cheaper I 'll have to get Dai Jones the carpenter from down the road instead . ’ |
| 13 | From now on I 'll be mine own executioner . ’ |
| 14 | And little Laura promised : ‘ From now on I 'll be taking care of Louis . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps , as the poem goes on I shall be able to make various things clearer . |
| 16 | I 'd forgotten how funny it is ; from now on I shall be using it in casual conversation more often . |
| 17 | I said to the local authorities in September that from now on I will be looking for schemes which encourage cycling — they 're more likely to attract grants from central government than authorities which concentrate exclusively on roads . |
| 18 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |
| 19 | TSB has n't reached Oxford 's newsagencies yet , so if any kind soul could grab me a copy this Sat and send it on I 'd be grateful ( I 'll pay for it and the p+p of course ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Somewhere I can be sure you wo n't be in any danger . ’ |
| 21 | That 's 'ow I can be so sure , you see . |
| 22 | That 's 'ow I can be so certain about the expression on 'is face . |
| 23 | I 'm probably quite wrong about that , but you know , when I think of Matisse and Giacometti and people like that , I ca n't compare them ; I think they fall very much below I may be quite wrong about this below the qualities of Picasso , because I think Picasso has such a very universal sense of things . |
| 24 | ‘ And I 'm her daughter , so naturally I must be the same , ’ Sabine said harshly . |
| 25 | If I 'm not good enough I 'll be the first to admit it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It works in exactly the same way only I 'll be going down instead of across . |
| 27 | Only I would be left . |
| 28 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 29 | If only I could be out there , I used to think , just that far away , alone in the useless marshes … |
| 30 | ‘ If only I could be certain of that . ’ |