Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she should be doing was looking on the bright side . |
| 2 | Telling your loved ones where you 're spending the night or what time you 'll be back is n't something that parents only demand of their children . |
| 3 | Right so everywhere there 's an X there it should be T 's |
| 4 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 5 | it must be daddy 's just done blue and yellow . |
| 6 | And get er eight o'clock it 'll be compo were n't it ? |
| 7 | It could be others are keeping quiet about this , I do n't know . |
| 8 | Perhaps one day there will be an advert using Biblical images , the foot-sore traveller will be seen having his feet anointed ( for which there is excellent Scriptural precedent ) and softly the music will steal up in the background — and it will be Handel 's ‘ How beautiful are the feet ’ . |
| 9 | It will be Bingham 's greatest-ever triumph against the odds if his re-emerging team manage to put the brakes on Jack Charlton 's drive to the United States finals next year . |
| 10 | Brutus compares Caesar to a snake and says that as it is bright day which brings forth the adder it will be Caesar 's crowning that would bring out his bad personality . |