Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be proved wrong , but I think they will be surprised at the change in the pace and intensity of international rugby since they 've been away . |
| 2 | In this way , the legal view of insanity really becomes a view regarding whether someone should be held responsible . |
| 3 | I 'll be kept alive until then . |
| 4 | I 'll be left alone ! ’ |
| 5 | The case for Solaris on Intel , however , does not appear a strong one for Stuart at present , ‘ although I could be proven wrong ’ , he said . |
| 6 | ‘ When it came to the birth I wanted to feel I could be left alone but have supportive people around me . |
| 7 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 8 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 9 | Then he 'd pinch my lines which , of course , I could n't repeat , so I 'd be left speechless . ’ |
| 10 | After travelling ‘ with knitting ’ for many years , I knew that I would be made welcome when I arrived . |
| 11 | Mummy , you must be mad if you think I would be seen dead in a yellow frock ! |
| 12 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 13 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 14 | Now , nightly , when Leon had finished playing and had closed his door again , I would be left sleepless , confused by the force of my neglected senses . |
| 15 | I remember I would be told infantile stories , altogether appropriate to my infantile station . |
| 16 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 17 | Moreover , as soon as the English think I know the name of their traitor , I will be kept safe . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps I will be thought outspoken , but so often it is those people who have moved into the country that complain . |
| 19 | When the last trump sounds and I stand before the Lord our God and am judged I will be found wanting and know not what to do . |
| 20 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 21 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 22 | So the group at Shepherd 's Bush has a way to go before some of them might be deemed fit to audition there or at other vocational schools . |
| 23 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |
| 24 | These commands are used to define geometric entities , that is points , lines and surfaces which may be given symbolic names . |
| 25 | Details are available in a series of publications which may be obtained free of charge from : |
| 26 | Techniques of zero-based and flexible budgeting need organisational sophistication in setting objectives and interpreting results , which may be felt inappropriate to relatively small surveying practices . |
| 27 | The effect of the restraint of trade doctrine on the first type of provision is to place limits on the type of information which may be made subject to the confidentiality provision . |
| 28 | In this way it might be possible to discover the implicit features , which may be made explicit at some later date . |
| 29 | The drawing shows the main design points for a single-stack system and the connections which may be made Detailed requirements are given in BS5572 : Code of Practice for Sanitary Pipework . |
| 30 | Extrawurst p14/ A smoked German sausage which may be eaten hot or cold |