Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them must be playing snooker three and four times a week in two or three different leagues . |
| 2 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 3 | Feel I may be witnessing end of Christian and dawn of Lucindian era . |
| 4 | ‘ I must be going potty . |
| 5 | I remember a while ago someone told me he thought I should be wearing platform shoes , but we 're not into having symbols of different generations , we 're just into style as a ‘ thing ’ : we 're into flaunting things , it 's just part of what we are . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't see why I should be held hostage over your quarrel with my brother ! ’ |
| 7 | Oh , I should be doing work but I ca n't . |
| 8 | So I might be doing tennis then . |
| 9 | ’ I 'll be needin' mair shag and all , ’ he bent and picked up the clay stump and peered into the empty bowl sadly . |
| 10 | ‘ Only that I 'll be eating lunch in about an hour 's time , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I 'll be singing groove . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll be entering Twin Oaks for the three miles Tommy Whittle Chase , ’ said Richards . |
| 13 | He says , right I 'm gon na go off the alcohol , I 'll be totally teetotal but I 'll be taking valium , he says it 's just like a vicious circle , what am I gon na do after the valium . |
| 14 | And little Laura promised : ‘ From now on I 'll be taking care of Louis . ’ |
| 15 | I said , " No , I 'll be getting money this way for her . " |
| 16 | I 'll be getting rise . |
| 17 | Yeah well I 'll be gone sort of half an hour . |
| 18 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 19 | Scholarship [ Wissenschaft ] , art and philosophy are now growing together inside me so much that in any case I 'll be giving birth to centaurs one day . |
| 20 | " Scholarship , art and philosophy " , Nietzsche had presciently written nearly two years earlier , " are now growing inside me so much that I 'll be giving birth to centaurs one day . " |
| 21 | Anyway , I thought I could be doing better things here , and I wanted a hot drink and I was feeling a bit peckish . |
| 22 | The snag is it could be almost anyone , and if I were Neneh Cherry or Stock , Aitken or Waterman , I do n't think I 'd be losing sleep over it . |
| 23 | There was a stairway leading from our form room which had good acoustics and we 'd sit there on the steps , and I 'd be playing guitar and David would be singing . |
| 24 | I 'd be doing rhyming slang if I did n't watch out . |
| 25 | And I 'd be going fuck off , they 're mine sort of thing . |
| 26 | But as I say as paying the er r I , I 've seen them when I 'm going round the site er I got an option from the firm , I 'd be allowed time off my work , my actual work on the , on the , on the site , to go round and collect their unions dues . |
| 27 | I 'd be posing noon till ten still |
| 28 | I 'd be working part time for full pay , if you see what I mean |
| 29 | " But I would be taking advantage of your kindness and feelings for me . " |
| 30 | Teachers were told that I would be observing pupil communication but the exact focus was not specified . |