Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 2 | The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion . |
| 3 | Rags and dusters with polish , window-cleaning liquid or white spirit on them should also be removed . |
| 4 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 5 | I may well be addressing a future Inquisitor — ’ |
| 6 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 7 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 8 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 9 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 10 | In choosing my own path I recognized that I may indeed be isolated , lonely and rejected by my family in a racist , sexist , homophobic country . |
| 11 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 12 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 13 | God , I do n't know if I should even be talking about it . ’ |
| 14 | It seemed that I should merely be making the balance even . |
| 15 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |
| 16 | I went up to my bedchamber and prayed , as I have not prayed — from desolation — since I prayed to leave Mrs Teape 's house and thought I should never be answered . |
| 17 | ‘ Said I should only be pretending . |
| 18 | Perhaps because I said that even if I returned I should now be shot for desertion . |
| 19 | ‘ I should then be learning my lines but I ca n't do anything before the kids get to bed . |
| 20 | And I think I should definitely be awarded my doctorate as soon as possible . |
| 21 | It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles . |
| 22 | ‘ The way I feel about you right now , I might just be tempted to snap your bones into little pieces . ’ |
| 23 | no , I wo n't , no I just get these for the kids , I might just be tempted to go in there and have a look though , did you eat all your others ? |
| 24 | I might even be sent to prison . |
| 25 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
| 26 | I was terrified that , while he had taken a branch off the piste towards the town , I might now be heading towards Mali , a waterless eight hundred miles away . |
| 27 | I 'll even be doing the high kicks Frankie is known throughout the entertainment business as an energetic performer using dance routines and high kicks . |
| 28 | I 'll even be fighting on the way out . ’ |
| 29 | " Well , I 'll just be living on your doorstep . " |
| 30 | If I start to get mad , I 'll just be banging my head against the wall . |