Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I shall inquire the date and time of your father 's funeral and if possible I 'll be there . ’ |
| 2 | that I work for erm being the Q S has its main headquarters in Derbyshire , so it 's just possible I may be able to get some business contacts in Derbyshire . |
| 3 | The first questions that you brought up was , if possible I would be very grateful to you for a brief description of the two raids to Gdynia Pole ninth of October in Colesfield tenth of October nineteen forty three . |
| 4 | If I wanted to make it rich I 'd be Private Eye 's libel lawyer . |
| 5 | Can I say definite I 'd be quite happy to start within the next four weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how grateful I 'd be . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am fully conscious of the fact that in so concluding I may be said not to be applying Reg. v. Morris . |
| 8 | get me wrong I 'd be getting a bit |
| 9 | In oxy-hemocyanin , too , the electronic spectrum , taken with the g-values from the ESR spectrum , shows that the copper(II) ions were in slightly distorted tetrahedral environments , and so the ready electron transfer to give tetrahedral Cu I could be understood . |
| 10 | ‘ If Liverpool were interested I would be honoured . |
| 11 | I shall beam on him as I serve him lunch and if the old bastard is particularly unpleasant I 'll be able to reflect on how bad he 'll feel when he 's unmasked . |
| 12 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
| 13 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 'll be at work . ’ |
| 15 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 16 | ‘ I would like to , I think — but I 'm afraid I might be like that — I think I would want to be like that . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 18 | Item No 2 : I am afraid I can be of no help , though I doubt if it is a weight . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Robyn , ’ he smiled , ‘ as much as I would like to stay here , chatting with you until the small hours , I 'm afraid I must be off . |
| 20 | But on the same score I 'm afraid I must be an a narrow minded urban socialist well okay , I 've never lived in a city but if you want to call me that , fine . |
| 21 | ( c ) Undertakings When giving an undertaking , remember that unless you make the contrary very clear you will be personally responsible for carrying out its terms if your client fails to do so — see the pronouncements of the Law Society published in the Law Society 's Gazette at various times over the years . |
| 22 | She felt sometimes that he did n't know how spirited she could be , and this would certainly have shown him ! |
| 23 | Push the rudder down , prepare everything because if you get it wrong you 'll be straight back on the beach again and then climb in and sail away . |
| 24 | It shows you how wrong you can be , and what you can do if you fight your fear and try . |
| 25 | It just shows how wrong you can be . |
| 26 | Which all went to prove how totally wrong she could be when in the next instant Ven swung abruptly away from her and informed her coolly , ‘ I 've an engagement this evening . |
| 27 | After three weeks , during which time it became clear she might be in her dotage before she mastered the Warsaw Concerto , she 'd given it up . |
| 28 | he was greatly concerned , too , with getting the correct scale of things , emphasising that the eye can only see at one glance an object which in size is one-third of the distance between the object and that eye ; in other words if you are painting a man six feet high you should be 18 feet away from him . |
| 29 | She determined she would show him how generous she could be , next time , how to her the priests ' talk was cant , and she 'd defy all for love of him . |
| 30 | If you 're Libyan or Lebanese you must be a terrorist . ’ |