Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must be there Shel . |
| 2 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
| 3 | I could be quite sort of interesting . |
| 4 | One is secret and compartmented , and another is sort of boyish and boastful , and it would be in character for him to say , I wo n't be here tomorrow , I will be down south , and then for him to say , Yes , it was a quick trip and I flew all night and I came back and I have n't slept for 48 hours , always complaining about how busy he was and how terribly overworked . |
| 5 | In around 6 months time I 'll have one of these famed degrees ( hopefully ) and at times I can be equally dopey … to the extent that the same thing happenend to me regarding my cashcard . |
| 6 | Fifty , sixty , seventy , oh she might be still living . |
| 7 | Course , you 'll be here Friday morning . |
| 8 | she 's gon na need her at weekends as well , in the summer , because she 'll be away eventing . |
| 9 | She saw it was herself , there on the canvas ; in fact it was so much herself that she could not believe that she could be both people , one here on the studio floor and one sitting there clasping her knees , her eyes lost in faraway visions , her white feet on wet black rocks against which little waves were breaking in plumes of spray . |
| 10 | Hello , said you 'd be down town this morning |
| 11 | If I can lie with her once , thought Fergus , if I can taste the sweetness , if I can possess her just once , she will be forever mine … |
| 12 | On arcade you can be either Guy you can be Guy and Codie and leave out Hagarth but most people go for Hagarth |
| 13 | We must be constantly vigil and keep a sharp look out for new issues which need to be put on our agenda , so that we can keep pace with the changes that affect our members and organization . |
| 14 | I think we 'll be away dad because |
| 15 | They would n't have guessed , they could say we 'll be out Friday night ! |
| 16 | He 'll fit in nowhere-he 'll be neither fish nor fowl … ‘ |
| 17 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 18 | We shall be there thanks to the excellent monetary and economic management that we have enjoyed in the 1980s and will continue to enjoy for the rest of the 1990s under a Conservative Government . |
| 19 | They may be mostly kids who still worry about spots — facial as well as first team — but they performed with commendable maturity , resolve and verve at White Hart Lane . |
| 20 | She wondered darkly if all this was n't just a waste of time , when they should be out hunting for clues to Benny 's whereabouts . |
| 21 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 22 | They need be only manilla , since they will rarely be taken out of your room . |
| 23 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 24 | Only that was nonsense , they would not be here , they would be wherever Randolph Henry Ash had put them , if they had ever been written . |
| 25 | Now they would be only threads in a tapestry of regrets . |
| 26 | It is uncommon for schools to use processes such as critical path analysis because they can be very time consuming unless used by experts , although simpler versions may be worth considering for example stocks and flows models . |
| 27 | They can be extremely irritant to the skin and have a very low degree of bio-degradability in purification plants . |
| 28 | If not it may be about time to offer a vote of confidence and see him on his way the week after . |
| 29 | It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ . |
| 30 | Alright , it may be there fault , but what happens if he fucking get out of control or then I can I always try and do it now , if somebody wants to act like a cunt , let them ! |